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I've started using find-lang --with-gnome in spec files now, in the hope of using _install_langs to reduce the size of live cds. It would be nice if --with-gnome would not only pick up the help files in /usr/share/gnome/help, but also the omf files in /usr/share/omf that go with them. The patch does just that. If you are worried about compatibility, we could also make that depend on a new --with-omf option, but I don't really think that is necessary.
Created attachment 160927 [details] patch
Jeremy also proposes to make --with-gnome --with-kde the default in our %find_lang macro.
I suppose it'd be good to have --with-omf to be in line with the other cases but... I wonder what has been the real point of all the --with-gnome etc options in the first place.
The point is to get %lang tagging for all the big locale-dependent files, so that _install_langs can do its magic. The documentation under gnome/help is the reason why evolution is the second-largest package on the live cd...
Yes, I can see that :) I'm just wondering why those --gnome etc things have bee optional to begin with if they dont break anything. To make it clear, I'm not opposed to this or anything, just curious.
Good question. The only slight concern is that turning it on by default now will cause duplication between foo.lang and the explicit file list, with one entry having a %lang tag, the other not. But I assume that rpm will handle that correctly.
Hey, this is rpm - assumptions are inherently dangerous :) I don't actually know what will happen in such a case, but the worst that can happen is that duplicates (which you'll get warned about) dont get treated as lang-files. Which is harmless as it's no worse than what was before. As for the patch itself, upstream at rpm.org and building right now into rawhide, will be in rpm-4.4.2.1-8.fc8. I've been totally blind and missed the fact that the .omf files were only searched when --with-gnome was specified, that's safe enough for me. Thanks for the patch :) Turning --with-kde and --with-gnome on by default in redhat-rpm-config is out of my control, but I'm in no way opposed to that.