glibc fix to allow instlangs to really work -- too late for f22?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at 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 at 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-20150316/1539279.html

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