The output of "rpm -qi" on this system looks like this: Name : rpm Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 4.0 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 4 Build Date: ons 30 aug 2000 23.49.43 Install date: svn 1 okt 2000 21.38.16 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: rpm-4.0-4.src.rpm Size : 2853571 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The Red Hat package management system. Description : The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. The dates are translated. (and possibly mangled by bugzilla, it doesn't seem to be 8-bit clean). The Summary and Description would be if I was finished with my translation of specs.po. (I'm working on it!) But what about the headers "Name", "Version", "Vendor" etc? Since these are strings in the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.0 rather than in the source code, they are not translated. (Even though my translation of rpm is up to date! :-) I'm not quite sure exactly what I would like to be done. One could of course create a locale-specific version of the rpmpopt file, but that would mean repeating a lot of alias "code", and would be a nuisance to maintain. Possibly the best solution would be to extend the --queryformat with some syntax for "translated version of", similar to the $"..." syntax of bash. Would that be feasible?
Changing component to popt
Component "popt"? I thought the SRPMs defined the components, and the popt package comes from the rpm SRPM.
Yes, the traditional convention is to file bugs against the src.rpm package. I'm just resorting my TODO tasks, popt is the place where the "fix" will be, so I've changed the component.
I believe that popt aliases can now be i18n'ified using magic tokens POPTdesc=$"..." and POPTargs=$"..." in an alias file like /etc/popt, just like the corresponding fields in poptOptions, so I'm gonna close this RFE.