On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:41:04PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:31:20 +0100, > Denis Barbier wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:52:59PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > [...] > > > Currently, our locales package do not remove /usr/lib/locale/<locale> > > > and /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive. Glibc locale system looks both > > > <locale> dir and locale-archive files to search the current locale's > > > database. These locale database can store the generated locales. So > > > this means that we can have very old locale entries in these locale > > > database. The current locale-archive file accumulates a lot of locale > > > database which were generated in the past but the current locales' > > > debconf interface does not have such old entries and they are not > > > updated. > > > > > > So the solution is: remove all directories in /usr/lib/locale and > > > /usr/lib/locale-archive whenever we reconfigure or install or upgrade > > > locales package in each time. > > > > > > I think simply removal for old locale entries is the best and the > > > easiest way. Any comments? > > > > Yes, I see no reason to choose a harder way. > > Thanks, I've now added in locales.postinst: > > # Update requested locales. Remove all old locale dir and > # locale-archive before generating new locale data. > if test -z $LEAVE_FLAG; then > rm -rf /usr/lib/locale/* > /usr/sbin/locale-gen > fi > > Removing all files/dirs might be problem. However at least there is > no package to touch /usr/lib/locale on my machine, so I guess it's > acceptable.
The only one in unstable is: usr/lib/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libelf.cat devel/libelfg0-dev Someone should probably fix that. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
