Bug 1069976

Created attachment 867720 [details]
anaconda.packaging.log from the installation with lang --addsupport=...

Search for lines "Adding .* to language list" to see that the locales listed in the kickstart option "lang <id> --addsupport=<LANGLIST>" are recognized and used while the kickstart package installation.

Created attachment 867721 [details]
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf after kickstart installation is finished and machine was rebooted

Additional infos:

The file /var/lib/yum/plugins/langpacks/installed_langpacks is empty after kickstart installation and reboot.

If I add locales using the command "yum langinstall <locale>", then
- the output of "yum langlist" contains <locale>
- the file /var/lib/yum/plugins/langpacks/installed_langpacks contains <locale>
- the command triggers the installations of language packages for that <locale>


Suppose that after kickstart installation and reboot I have installed a list of other packages (I have a script that add some packages using yum). I also have a script that has added the languages de_DE,en_US,es_ES,fr_FR,it_IT,pl_PL using yum langinstall. This is the list of installed languages:

# yum -d 0 -e 0 langlist
Installed languages:
German (Germany)
Spanish (Spain)
French (France)
Italian (Italy)
	Polish (Poland)

Now the package list for languages "de" (added using yum langinstall) and "sv" (not added using yum langinstall) are:

# yum -d 0 -e 0 langinfo de
Language-Id=de
  LabPlot-doc-de
  aspell-de
  autocorr-de
  calligra-l10n-de
  drascula-de
  eclipse-nls-de
  gcompris-sound-de
  gimp-help-de
  gnome-getting-started-docs-de
  hunspell-de
  hyphen-de
  kde-i18n-German
  kde-l10n-German
  kicad-doc-de
  libreoffice-langpack-de
  man-pages-de
  mythes-de
  nqc-doc-de
  sagemath-doc-de
  tagainijisho-dic-de
  tkgate-de

# yum -d 0 -e 0 langinfo sv
Language-Id=sv
  LabPlot-doc-sv
  aspell-sv
  autocorr-sv
  calligra-l10n-sv
  eclipse-nls-sv
  gcompris-sound-sv
  gimp-help-sv
  hunspell-sv
  hyphen-sv
  kde-i18n-Swedish
  kde-l10n-Swedish
  libreoffice-langpack-sv
  mythes-sv


Now do a manual installation of language "sv" using "yum langinstall sv".
See that the package "tesseract-langpack-swe" was added by this command:

# yum -d 0 -e 0 langinfo sv
Language-Id=sv
  LabPlot-doc-sv
  aspell-sv
  autocorr-sv
  calligra-l10n-sv
  eclipse-nls-sv
  gcompris-sound-sv
  gimp-help-sv
  hunspell-sv
  hyphen-sv
  kde-i18n-Swedish
  kde-l10n-Swedish
  libreoffice-langpack-sv
  mythes-sv


It seems that the other languages packages was installed during kickstart installation (see output of anaconda.packageing.log).

The list of available languages (output of "yum langavailable") tells me that there are other languages available that the system (yum?) thinks that they are not installed (as "yum langlist" differs).

To summarize:

- Kickstart option "lang <id> --addsuport=<LANGLIST>" works fine during kickstart installation, but the language list is not saved to be available for yum after reboot.

- I have to add each languages explicit (using "yum langinstall ...") for each desired language after finishing kickstart installation (e.g. after reboot).

- Kickstart option "lang <id> --addsuport=<LANGLIST>" should do what "yum langinstall ..." would do for each listed locale, so that "yum langlist" "knows" these languages after reboot, too.

Update for Fedora 21:

The list of languages in kickstart option "lang <id> --addsuport=<LANGLIST>" is saved in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf now. This parts seems to be solved.

I have not tested the other problems in Fedora 21 (yum langinstall, if /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf is used, etc.) up to now, I will do it sometimes later.

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