Re: Missing l10n and incomplete verification

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-rpm e-smith com>]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Charlie Brady wrote:

> 
> I would expect "rpm -V foo" to tell me about missing files. But it doesn't 
> seem to. Is this expected behaviour? 
> 
> If it is intended for localisation files to be conditionally installed, 
> what conditions control whether they are installed or not?
> 
> bash-2.05# rpm -q lynx
> lynx-2.8.4-17
> bash-2.05# ls -l /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       124902 Jul 31  2001 
> /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
> bash-2.05# rpm -V lynx
> S.5....T c /etc/lynx.cfg

But if I now re-install the RPM, I get all the localisations:

bash-2.05# rpm -iv --force ~/lynx-2.8.4-17.i386.rpm 
Preparing packages for installation...
lynx-2.8.4-17
bash-2.05# ls */LC*/lynx.mo
cs/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo  ja/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo     sl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
da/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo  nl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo     sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
de/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo  pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
fr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo  ru/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo

And if I remove a file, the rpm verification correctly fails:

bash-2.05# rm sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo 
rm: remove `sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo'? y
bash-2.05# rpm -V lynx
S.5....T c /etc/lynx.cfg
missing    /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
bash-2.05# 

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