On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 00:04 +0200, KH KH wrote: > The "whole" problematic of localized LiveCD isn't only that language, > keyboard, date (but also firefox/thunderbird dictionaries) are thoses > from a given locale option. > But also that translation texts (/usr/share/locale/* ) are also > removed to only keep the desired locale.
There aren't any translations removed from the default desktop live image. I can't speak to what's done for the other live images > This will save around 200Mo > from a 700Mo international spin. (tested in the fr_FR LiveCD case). > So maybe it could be possible to store locales in a special place so > it can be removed easily from the international spin when the iso is > getting transferered to the (LiveUSB) device. The problems with removing languages from being installed start with a) No easy way for someone to go back and add a locale after the fact b) Not having bits installed means that if you're using deltarpms, you can't really take advantage of deltas > But for now i'm still using (from the fedora-livecd-desktop-fr_FR.ks ): > %pre > # Only install the needed locales > mkdir -p /etc/rpm > echo "%_install_langs en:fr:fr_FR:fr-FR" > /etc/rpm/macros.lang You do realize that %pre doesn't even run at all with livecd-creator? Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list