On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
On 18/03/15 11:55, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> The glibc team has a fix for a longstanding issue, which is that
>> "instlangs" hasn't worked in the installer. This means that in a
>> minimal image of about 400MB, 100MB is translation information. (Of
>> course we want Fedora to be international, but there are many cases
>> like Docker containers where no human is really even looking inside, so
>> it's just overhead.)
>>
>> In the cloud and docker images, we've been carrying horribly hacks
>> (really, horrible) to strip this out ofter the fact. The new fix would
>> let us get the same effect the right way. I'm told that this is a
>> low-risk change and does not affect the rest of glibc. So, the question
>> -- I guess mostly for FESCo, but in general -- is: should we get this
>> in before the beta, or should it wait for F23?
>
>
> Isn't this causing RPM dependency issues when trying to create rawhide
> chroots on RHEL6 hosts via mock? I am fairly sure it's the reason
> COPR rawhide chroots are failing. If so, then I don't think we want
> it in f22 until that is fixed.
Didn't this commit fix that?
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-2015031...
Ah, from yesterday. I hadn't seen that yet. I hope it does, because
I have things to build in Rawhide COPRs :).
Still, I would suggest waiting at least a few days to see if there is
any other fallout before we consider it for f22.
josh