On mån, 2015-06-22 at 06:16 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote:
= Proposed System Wide Change: Glibc locale subpackaging =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Glibc_locale_subpackaging
Change owner(s):
* Mike Fabian <mfabian At redhat DOT com>
* Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek AT redhat DOT com>
* Carlos O’Donell <codonell AT redhat DOT com>
This change should make it possible to install or uninstall locales
individually.
== Detailed Description ==
Currently the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive contains all
locales and is thus huge (103MB).
For small systems (and containers) it would be useful to be able to
install only a small number of locales.
Recently we made it possible to install a small number of locales by
supplying the rpm-macro “_install_langs”, for example
rpm -i -D _install_langs="en:de_DE" glibc-common.rpm
will install all English locales and all German locales which start
with “de_DE”,
rpm -i -D _install_langs="en_US.utf8" glibc-common.rpm
will install only the en_US.utf8 locale,
rpm -i -D _install_langs="POSIX" glibc-common.rpm
will install nothing (but the POSIX/C is still available because it
is builtin into glibc).
But this approach works only during an Anaconda based install when
Anaconda supplies the _install_langs rpm-macro.
When glibc is updated later, the _install_langs macro will not be
supplied on the command line during the update and the default value
“all” of “_install_langs” from /usr/lib/rpm/macros will be used and
all locales come back during an update.
Therefore, this solution is far from perfect.
It should be made possible to install and uninstall locales
individually, for example by having a separate package for the
locales for each language. Installing such a package would add these
locales to locale-archive, uninstalling it would remove them.
Do they really have to modify locale-archive? Can't each package
install separate archive files (say, based on the locale name).
Packaging optional extra files is a lot easier for me in my work with
an xdg-app runtime based on fedora.
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