Re: localized bf for potato release?
On 29 Jun 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
[...]
> I would like to provide i18n'd images though, for i386 at least.
> However, this is going to have to be manually installed I think.
> Will i18n folks be able to provide me with images? Documentation is
> already created and provided l10n'd.
>
> I'm not quite sure if we should put them in:
>
> dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/ru
> dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ru
>
> Or else:
>
> dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44-ru/compact
> dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44-ru/idepci
>
> Or else somewhere else entirely.
>
> I'm kinda inclined towards
> dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44-ru/compact
>
> Since that seems pretty consistent but doesn't confuse the standard
> stuff.
Cc:'d to -cd to increase awareness: if the disks-*/ size changes, the CD
creation scripts must be adjusted. (At least, AFAIK there is no autodetection
feature yet).
Do you have any idea how much extra images we're talking about? Per arch?
And maybe an idea: since the l10'd floppy series are >90% the same, we could
possibly think of some "binary patching to the desired language" scheme. I'll
leave further exploration of options to people with more time ;-)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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