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Yum Langpack Plugin

Summary

A yum plugin that allows langpacks to be automatically installed for your native language when base packages with langpacks get installed.

Owner

Name: User:Petersen
Email: petersen at redhat com

Current status

Targeted release: ??
Last updated: 2010-04-07
Percentage of completion: 100%

Detailed Description

Currently when users install packages with langpacks they have to install the langpacks themselves by hand (if they even know about them).

Last year in a related thread on fedora-devel-list Bill Nottingham posted an initial proof of concept of this plugin. This feature will polish that further and make it ready for general use. (See also this rfe bug.)

This feature will also allow firefox and thunderbird to earn langpacks as they deserve.

Here is an outline of the design and current assumptions:

install plugin (langpack language defaults to current locale)
when user activates yum (eg through PackageKit) the plugin will check if langpacks are needed or available for the packages involved in the transaction
keep conditional lang support entries in comps for now and maybe drop them in a later release
package languages can be configured in .conf file

Optional/longer term ideas (deferred for later).

allow for whitelisting/blacklisting of specific langpacks
setting for which langs appear by default in gdm lang top menu (rfe bug)
recommendation for Packaging Guideline for standard naming of langpacks (eg <basename>-langpack-<lang>)
(longterm) extend to handling gettext translation .mo files

Benefit to Fedora

Users will get langpacks for their language installed automatically if they wish.

Scope

Complete initial yum plugin and package [done]
Add yum-plugin-langpacks package to fedora [done]
Include in comps [done: added to @base]
Fedora QA Test Day in Feb [done]
Tweaks, improvements, bugfixes [done]

Test Plan

Test various scenarios

Do a Japanese Fedora install, and then later add kde and eclipse
Do English Fedora install and groupinstall some lang support and add openoffice

The effect of yum-langpacks in @base needs testing with:

anaconda
pungi
livecd-tools

User Experience

Installation of langpacks will Just Work.

Dependencies

None

Contingency Plan

Make yum-langpacks package optional in @base

Documentation

Mentioned in the Documentation_I18n_Beat

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 == Current status ==
-* Targeted release: [[Releases/12|  Fedora 12]]
+* Targeted release: [[Releases/??| ??]]
-* Last updated: 2009-07-24
+* Last updated: 2010-04-07
-* Percentage of completion: 30%
+* Percentage of completion: 100%
 == Detailed Description ==
@@ Line 22: / Line 22: @@
 Here is an outline of the design and current assumptions:
-# add langpack-support-<lang> metapackage for each language, which users can install if they want langpack support for the language
+# install plugin (langpack language defaults to current locale)
-# the langpack metapackages will all require yum-plugin-langpacks
-# langpack-support-<lang> metapackages will be added to the comps lang support groups
 # when user activates yum (eg through PackageKit) the plugin will check if langpacks are needed or available for the packages involved in the transaction
-# maybe keep conditional lang entries for now in F12 and drop them later in F13 say
+# keep conditional lang support entries in comps for now and maybe drop them in a later release
+# package languages can be configured in .conf file
-Optional/longer term ideas (likely deferred for later).
+Optional/longer term ideas (deferred for later).
 # allow for whitelisting/blacklisting of specific langpacks
 # setting for which langs appear by default in gdm lang top menu ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505484 rfe bug])
@@ Line 38: / Line 37: @@
 == Scope ==
-# Write yum plugin, test, wash, rinse, repeat
+# Complete initial yum plugin and package [done]
-# Add yum-plugin-langpacks package to fedora or yum-utils upstream
+# Add yum-plugin-langpacks package to fedora [done]
-# Add metapackages package to fedora: see [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=langpack-support pkgreview]
+# Include in comps [done: added to @base]
-# Include in comps
+# Fedora QA Test Day in Feb [done]
+# Tweaks, improvements, bugfixes [done]
 == Test Plan ==
 Test various scenarios
-# Do a Japanese Fedora install, and then later add kde and eclipse
+* Do a Japanese Fedora install, and then later add kde and eclipse
-# Do English Fedora install and groupinstall some lang support and add openoffice
+* Do English Fedora install and groupinstall some lang support and add openoffice
-# etc
+The effect of yum-langpacks in @base needs testing with:
+* anaconda
+* pungi
+* livecd-tools
 == User Experience ==
-# Installation of langpacks will Just Work.
+Installation of langpacks will Just Work.
 == Dependencies ==
@@ Line 56: / Line 60: @@
 == Contingency Plan ==
-Not required - things would just stay as before.
+Make yum-langpacks package optional in @base
 == Documentation ==
-none yet
+* Mentioned in the [[Documentation_I18n_Beat]]
-== Release Notes ==
-to be documented in the I18n docsbeat
-----
-[[Category:FeatureReadyForFesco]]
+[[Category:FeaturePageIncomplete]]

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