On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > >On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 14:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> > >>>If you really want to reduce the disk footprint of your installation, > >>>you want to check out %_install_langs to only install the locales you > >>>really care about. Sadly, this is a very neglected feature of rpm, and > >>>we don't really support this or expose it in any usable fashion... > >> > >>Mandriva uses it by default. The big drawback to this is that, if you > >>install the system and _subsequently_ enable a locale, you don't get the > >>locale-specific files for that locale for any package that was installed > >>as part of the initial installation. Which is a bit of a bummer. > > > >Right, this is what I meant by supporting this and making it usable... > > Additionally rpm -Va will report missing files iirc No, not really. 'rpm -Va' will not find anything amiss. 'rpm -qs <package>' will report assorted "not installed" for those files which were skipped. This also reduces effectivness of yum-presto as deltas will not apply if some package files could not be found on a disk. There are packages which will be complete, so they will not suffer from that, but this is another trade-off. If somebody wants to experiment then a good way is to add a file /etc/rpm/macros.lang with a line in it in this style: %_install_langs C:en:pl:fr:ru To reverse or modify effects you will have to 'rpm -U --force ...'-install all packages for which '--state' (i.e. -s) rpm query option reports "non installed" files. What was already installed will not magically change because you added/modified %_install_langs but updates will honour that. Mkichal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
