On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 09:03 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
On 02/26/2016 10:39 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:56:27AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > On 02/26/2016 08:39 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > >
> > > Dne 26.2.2016 v 11:20 Carlos O'Donell napsal(a):
> > > >
> > > > No languages are available by default, we did this because otherwise
> > > > you keep carrying forward locales that you can't remove.
> > > For this reasons we have weak dependencies. I guess that:
> > > Recommends: glibc-all-langpacks
> > > can do the work (install or by default, can be safely removed). Or
> > > Suggests: glibc-all-langpacks
> > > so it is not installed by default, but users can get the
> > > information that it can enhance the usability of glibc.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, I think the best approach would be to have all the langpacks offer a
> > virtual Provides: glibc-langpack and have the main package Requires:
> > glibc-langpack and Suggests: glibc-all-langpacks. The net result would be that
> > unless a specific langpack was chosen, you'd end up with all of them to
satisfy
> > the requirement. (This would also unbreak the upgrades without needing a patch
> > to dnf system-upgrade)
> That would be a much better solution. dnf-system-upgrade so far didn't
> have any special handling for specific packages (except for a check
> that the kernel is in the upgrade transaction) and there no mechanism
> like this is implemented.
We are investigating switching to this. It shouldn't be a problem, and
with a quick rebuild of glibc in F24 I think we'll be ready. I just need
to run through the testing quickly on Monday.
All of our langpacks are auto-generated based on glibc supported locales
so there is no grunt work in changing, just testing again that it works
smoothly.
I have filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312956 and
nominated it as a Beta blocker, for the issue of all locales
disappearing on upgrade.
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