On 08/12/2011 09:21 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
You have 'specspo' package installed and are running some older distro (such as RHEL <= 5). 'specspo' provides translations for package group, summary and description strings. When the specspo mechanism is enabled, rpm tries to look up a translations to ALL languages from specspo, and only falls back to the actual string from the package itself if it doesn't exist in specspo. This lookup is keyed on name(item) (in this case "firefox(description)") instead of the actual string in the original package to allow changing the original (english) description without breaking all its translations. What you're seeing is the downside: even the english "translation" comes from specspo if available for that package. You're not the first and almost certainly not the last to wonder about this :) If you dont care about those translations, just 'rpm -e specspo' and you'll see the relevant strings including description as they are in the package instead of the translation "database".
Thanks Panu. I colleague of mine actually just found this out and I hadn't gotten a chance to post back yet. I can definitely see the pros and cons. Remove the specspo package worked well for me, but I can't really mandate that for all the package users. I guess it's not really a huge problem though.
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