Bug 568361

Summary:	Additional langpacks are not installed when language changed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component:	yum-langpacks	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	i18n-bugs, petersen
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Description Kamil Páral 2010-02-25 14:58:45 UTC

Description of problem:
I followed this test case:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Langpack_Yum_Application

I logged in with cs_CZ locale, installed eclipse. The eclipse-nls-cs was correctly added to the install list. After that I logged out and logged in with pl_PL locale. I don't seem to be able to have eclipse-nls-pl installed automatically. I tried "yum update eclipse", "yum install eclipse", "yum update" - still it doesn't offer me to install Polish langpack automatically.
But the test case says "Current locale package for the installed application should be installed automatically."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 12
yum-presto-0.6.2-1.fc12.noarch
yum-utils-1.1.25-1.fc12.noarch
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14.fc12.x86_64
yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch
yum-langpacks-0.1.4-2.fc13.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2010-02-25 15:36:27 UTC

The same problem for PackageKit integration, I don't know how to have pl translation automatically installed. I tried installing other packages, I tried to display the list of available updates - no eclipse-nls-pl there.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2010-02-26 10:16:43 UTC

yum-langpacks only kicks in when there is a package update available I think.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 10:54:43 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2010-10-27 06:16:53 UTC

I think this is basically a limitation of yum.
At least the plugin currently will only see
langpacks for a new language when there is
base package update.  But if you have a example
or counterexample for a different plugin say
I can try to look more into how this might be
done.  I think there might also be a lot of
yum overhead if we have to check for langpacks
for any installed package in every yum transaction.
So may be the current way is a reasonable
compromise if not perfect.

Comment 5 Kamil Páral 2010-10-27 09:08:36 UTC

I understand. So what's the proposed solution - you close this bug as WONTFIX and I'll update the test case instructions and put a note there about this use case (saying it's not supported)?

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2010-10-27 09:25:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> I understand. So what's the proposed solution - you close this bug as WONTFIX
> and I'll update the test case instructions and put a note there about this use
> case (saying it's not supported)?

Yes, thank you - sounds good to me.

If later we find a better way to handle this
case perhaps we can reopen and revisit.