From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 Request for enhancement: Please split the multi-language php-manual rpm into several packages, so one doesn't have to install a huge 15 MiB compressed rpm just to get the PHP Manual in one language. E.g. php-manual-cs php-manual-de php-manual-en php-manual-es ... If necessary, add a php-manual-common. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.0.6-12 (errata release)
*shrugg* I asked around. Not the policy here. The manuals do not really change from errata to errata release so thers really no reason to pull them down. The reason it's a singular rpm is because it's languified. Phil =--=
Maybe it's not such a big deal to download one 15meg package, but having nearly 100 megs wasted on the disk is not the thing to do. Having the package languified(?) means using "%lang(...)" tags in the %files section, right? If so, first rpm installed all of them anyway and second I am not able to sensibly select the languages I want, as I don't only want the language in set in $LANG (I consider %lang a failed experiment). Whether or not, I just looked and have 10 translations on my disk I really don't want. And I don't want to just remove files in the rpm database either. If you can't justify the time spent, tell me a version-release to begin with and I shall send you a split-up package back.
nils, if you're getting all of the translations installed, then you're getting them because RPM is installing files marked for all languages. Check the setting for %_install_langs in /usr/lib/rpm/macros to verify this.
And the proposed way to change the set of installed languages for a specific package is "rpm -ivh <samepackage.rpm> --define '_install_langs <list of langs>' --replacepkgs"? Yuck.