[Kde-extra-gear] Re: Message freeze for KimDaBa

[Klas Kalass]

Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2004 10:08 schrieb Jeroen Wijnhout:
> On Friday 30 January 2004 09:16, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> > | It would be nice to know how translations in kdeextragear end up
> > | getting distributed. I stopped translating kdenonbeta because it became
> > | fairly clear they ended up in /dev/null or something like that. I know
> > | how koffice and the regular modules get distributed, and I thought the
> > | programs in kdeextragear were distributed with all translations, but
> > | after the discussion on this list that is obviously not the case. So do
> > | they get distributed in any way?
> >
> > I can obviously not speak for all programs in kdeextragear, as each of
> > them are shipped separately, but I if there should be a kdeextragear
> > project reading this and disagree, please speak up.
> >
> > KimDaBa uses cvs2dist to make packages. cvs2dist checks out both kind of
> > translations, ie. .po and .docbooks files, and put those into the .tar.gz
> > files. So yes, the translation are indeed uses.
> >
> > In addition I can also confirm that the RPM packages made out of the
> > tar.gz files also do include the translations.
>
> This is how I used to do it as well. However there are some drawbacks:
> cvs2dist stopped working for me (don't know why), the packages get huge if
> you included many translations (so it is better to make a separate i18n
> package), cvs2dist cannot deal with branches (leading to all sorts of
> problems).

We have kdeextragear-1/scripts/cvsExtract.sh, which is intended to be "the" 
packaging script for the extra gear. If there are any problems with that one, 
please send a mail to this list. Sebastian Trueg seems to maintain it at the 
moment :-)

Regards,
  Klas