Re: glibc in Fedora rawhide now split by langpacks.

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On 02/26/2016 09:44 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 12:25 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> What happens if the user isn't using DNF? For the workstation we have
>> to support users using just the graphical tools, and we can't rely on
>> command line tools for this kind of thing. I'm happy to add support
>> for installing lang packs into gnome-software but need to know how
>> the
>> langpack plugin works so we can add proper support into the AppStream
>> metadata file. The idea being if the user changes the per-session
>> language we install the required langpacks automatically.
>>
>> Can someone explain how the dnf langpack plugin gets the data on what
>> application subpackages to install? It would be easy if we could have
>> a virtual package that we could install for each locale as then we
>> can
>> just put the metainfo file there for easy support in gnome-software.
> 
> We also need locale selection in gnome-control-center and gnome-
> initial-setup to work. Any chance you'll work on that too, Richard?
> 
> Otherwise, we should be able to resolve this by adding glibc-all-
> langpacks to the Workstation group in comps (correct Carlos?). It
> defeats the point of this change, but releasing with broken locale
> selection is not gonna happen.

Correct, 'glibc-all-langpacks' will solve the problem immediately.

We're working right now on the solution Stephen suggested which is
a weak ref/suggests which looks like it would let rpm handle the
upgrade properly.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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