Bug 107896

Summary:	mozilla-firefox-bin LINGUAS question
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Roessner <c>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild.diff

Description Christian Roessner 2005-10-02 07:37:11 UTC

What about the idea of modifying the mozilla-firefox-bin ebuild so that it
downloads the browser in a locale you have set with LINGUAS?

My idea:
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DESCRIPTION="Firefox Web Browser"

# If linguas is not set, we default to US english
[ -z $LINUGAS ] && LINGUAS="en_US"

SRC_URI="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/linux-i686/${LINGUAS}/firefox-${PV}.tar.gz"
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Is something like this possible?

Thanks
Christian

N.B.: LINGUAS is set in /etc/make.conf. I know that OOo and KDE is using it, so
why not firefox and/or thunderbird, too?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Albert Holm 2005-10-02 07:46:40 UTC

"The variable takes in space-separated list of language codes"
What would it do in the case of LINGUAS="sv"?
What would it do in the case of LINGUAS="sv en"?

Comment 2 Christian Roessner 2005-10-02 13:37:18 UTC

Okay, seems my patch is not okay. So maybe we could list every src like done in
OpenOffice-bin. This should not be a bigger problem

If you do not want to do this, I may send a patch in the near future. But this
may take some days

Regards
Christian

Comment 3 Albert Holm 2005-10-02 14:03:50 UTC

I think you misunderstood me. I am not maintaining any relevant packages, I am 
just a  user. The idea is probably good (I don't use mozillas of any kind so I 
don't really know) but I think it might need a second iteration on thinking on 
the implementation so it is done right. I wish you the best of luck. I am sure 
users of firefox will be very happy to get an internationalized version.

Comment 4 Christian Roessner 2005-10-02 15:41:14 UTC

Created attachment 69757 [details]
mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild.diff

This patch could be a a sample for what I have meant. Missing: Fallback to a
default linguas, if none was defined (can this happen?).

Also: What happens to users, defining a linguas, which is not supported?

Thanks for answers

Christian

Comment 5 Tobias Sager 2005-11-30 02:11:18 UTC

Duplicate of bug 69654.

Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-22 18:00:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69654 ***