Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 222802
Anconda always istall all languages
Last modified: 2007-11-16 20:14:55 EST
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #221258 +++ Description of problem: Anaconda always instals all supported languages, which wastes 120MB of disk space. You can select one, two or three languages, but the usr/share/locale and the usr/lib/locale end up with all languges. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Any installation Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from the CD 2. Select one language (say english) 3. At the end, look to /usr/lib/share/locale and /usr/lib/locale Actual results: All languages installed Expected results: Only the selected language installed Additional info: I have played a lot with the "ks.cfg" trying to create a bare-bones FC5 to install in a 512M Flash, but this bug wastes 120MB of the disk, which prevents me using Fedora in the flash. -- Additional comment from katzj@redhat.com on 2007-01-03 14:03 EST -- This is intentional as you can't go back and add the languages later -- Additional comment from fcarijo@omnisys.com.br on 2007-01-03 14:19 EST -- If it is so, the "System Administration Guide", item 1.4 Kickstart options should be corrected, as it says that only choosing "default" with one language installs everything: langsupport (required) Sets the language(s) to install on the system. The same language codes used with lang can be used with langsupport. To install one language, specify it. For example, to install and use the French language fr_FR: langsupport fr_FR --default= If language support for more than one language is specified, a default must be identified. For example, to install English and French and use English as the default language: langsupport --default=en_US fr_FR If you use --default with only one language, all languages are installed with the specified language set to the default.
This was a very intentional from RHEL 3 -> RHEL 4; if we don't install all of the mo files, there is no way to add support for a language after the install completes without going back and reinstalling all of the packages.
I'm sorta confused. So you're saying that by specifying one default language, anaconda is intentionally installing all of the languages? This is not entirely clear from the documentation and is not intuitive behavior. One thing to note, is that when the problem occurs (i.e. --default en_US is used), the "Canna" package is installed for inputting japanese characters, wheras (when just en_US is used or "--default en_US fr_FR" is used, this package is not installed).