Bug 1055

Which is what bug 460 is about, IIUC.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 460 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460 was about the fact that Burmese was shown without good reason after an install from the DVD.

This is about countries being not available after an install from the Live CD. There is some relation, but IMHO they are different bugs.

Read bug 460 summary again (after blino modified it 1-2 days ago).

Burmese showing when locales-en is installed is bug 1036. 

(Off-topic, in bugzilla you can use 'bug $BUGNUMBER' and bugzilla will translate it automatically to a url to the bug report in question).

Originally bug 460 said the same as 1036 did later. Nevermind. Current bug is stg different. But I already described it in the original report. Seems clear to me.

Apparently I have to explain it in a better way - so here goes:

Scenario 1:
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Install Mageia from full DVD. Choose language English, location Netherlands (or any other, all countries are listed and can be selected).

Afterwards localedrake gives the option to use Burmese (and English and Dutch). This is weird for the user. Fixed by Thierry in svn as Bug 460, later Bug 1036.

$ $ $

Scenario 2:
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Install Mageia from Live CD (GNOME or KDE give same result). There are only a few languages to choose from (obviously: it's only one CD, not all fit on it). 

After rebooting and adding & updating all repositories, one fires up localedrake embedded in MCC.

Now I should want to change my location to The Netherlands (or Slovenia etcetera). But I cannot, the countries simply are not listed. This is a different problem than Bug 460 or Bug 1036.

If someone is new to Mageia (or Linux), how is the user supposed to know (s)he should install locales-nl etc. to achive this? The user should have a full list of countries to select from, and if needed localedrake should be able to install any needed packages.

After all the MCC icon does say: "Manage localization for your system", but at this point it can't. So this bug is not fixed yet.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)
Summary: [ GNOME Live CD Beta2 ] Not all countries available in localedrake => [ Live CD Beta2 ] Not all countries available in localedrake

I won't close, for the third time, as a dupe of bug 460 because I am tired of this ping pong, open close, game.

Over & out.

I'm sorry that you get tired, Ahmad: I don't know how to make it more clear but it is not a duplicate. Bug 460 is about language. This one is about location.

Adding a dependency to bug 460, since countries will only appear if the locale if available

CC: (none) => mageia
Depends on: (none) => 460

@ Olivier

Assigning to you, although I know bug 460 needs to be solved. I just don't want this to be forgotten now that Mga 2

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

This bug is still valid for Mageia 2. The "full list of countries" after selecting the language "English" does not contain Israel for example.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2TOO
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => shlomif

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This still happens with Mga 3 beta 1, I don't have Colombia nor any other South American country available after install.

CC: (none) => juan.baptiste

Still valid

Hardware: i586 => All
Whiteboard: MGA2TOO => 3RC

(In reply to Dick Gevers from comment #14)
> Still valid

Thanks for checking :-D

re-adding MGA2TOO, because I don't understand why it was removed

Whiteboard: 3RC => 3RC MGA2TOO

Valid also for prerelease isos of 3 final

Whiteboard: 3RC MGA2TOO => MGA2TOO 3final

Created attachment 3965 [details]
Tentative patch to fix the problem.

This is a tentative/temporary patch that fixes the problem. It is done against:

shlomif[rpms]:$mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk$ svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/Mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk
URL: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk
Repository Root: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft
Repository UUID: 5b7c3c08-40e5-403b-9995-ace06908e4af
Revision: 8223
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: francescpinyol
Last Changed Rev: 8215
Last Changed Date: 2013-05-12 22:47:37 +0300 (Sun, 12 May 2013)

shlomif[rpms]:$mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk$ 

This lists the whole countries including those not installed.

Hi all,

(In reply to Shlomi Fish from comment #17)
> Created attachment 3965 [details]
> Tentative patch to fix the problem.
> 
> This is a tentative/temporary patch that fixes the problem. It is done
> against:
> 
> shlomif[rpms]:$mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk$ svn info
> Path: .
> Working Copy Root Path:
> /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/Mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk
> URL: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk
> Repository Root: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft
> Repository UUID: 5b7c3c08-40e5-403b-9995-ace06908e4af
> Revision: 8223
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: francescpinyol
> Last Changed Rev: 8215
> Last Changed Date: 2013-05-12 22:47:37 +0300 (Sun, 12 May 2013)
> 
> shlomif[rpms]:$mageia/TOOLS/drakx/trunk$ 
> 
> This lists the whole countries including those not installed.

I submitted this patch many weeks ago - does anyone have any comments about it? Can it be applied?

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

I don't see any difference with that patch.

However, there are two issues here:

1. list of choosable languages is limited to installed ones (from locales-xx packages)
2. first list of countries is determined by choosen language

For 1, it would be nice if the "advanced" option would list the whole list
of all possible languages; and if choosing a new one, install the corresponding locales-xx

For 2; the full countries list is available on the advanced option of country choosing; it is simply that in some cases the "short" list is quite long and it misleads to thinking it is the whole list.
Two possible solutions:
a) change the wording of the "choose your country" to "choose your country (see below for other countries)"
b) after some threshold (maybe ~15-20 countries) just display the whole list.

CC: (none) => pablo

(In reply to Pablo Saratxaga from comment #19)
> I don't see any difference with that patch.
> 

OK, to demonstrate the difference, I have created a screen recording:

http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/video/localedrake-with-and-without-the-patch.ogv

The first invocation of localedrake is without the patch, the second is with it applied. As you can see, the second list includes many countries that are not in the first list (including Iran and some empty countries in the beginning).

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

Valid for Live disks 4RC round 9

Blocks: (none) => 11704
Whiteboard: MGA2TOO 3final => MGA2TOO 3final 4RC

I was thinking of trying to add all locales-* to livecds too, to make them more useful (without adding language files for all other packages, as that would grow too big)

that would stop those uggly errors in conole if correct locales is available.

that would also fix this issue ...

@tmb re #c22: IMHO the system only needs to know they exist, so it can download them when asked. 

And the report is for post install, so live disk is not an available medium anymore at that stage, I believe, so for that reason and to avoid bloat of the disk, I am not sure it would solve the problem.

(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #22)
> I was thinking of trying to add all locales-* to livecds too

Maybe you can try that with next rounds of mga5 images?

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Old installers wont be changed.

Valid for M5B1, as seen with LiveCD KDE (Gnome one not working for me as per errata).
Missing same countries as aforementioned.

Whiteboard: MGA2TOO 3final 4RC => 5beta1

(In reply to Florian Hubold from comment #24)
> (In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #22)
> > I was thinking of trying to add all locales-* to livecds too
> 
> Maybe you can try that with next rounds of mga5 images?

That would only be a fix for the live ISO, but hopefully all those locales would not be installed on the system, and the bug would remain on installed systems AFAIU.

It seems to me that to fix this bug the available countries should be split out of the locales-<lang> packages, and localedrake should require the installation of the needed locales-<lang> package depending on the chosen country.

I don't have much hope that this will get fixed for Mageia 5 though, and we're struggling with the other blockers, so I move this one to the Mageia 6 tracker. It can be fixed after the release via an update btw (at least the post-install configuration issue).

CC: (none) => remi
Blocks: 14069, 11704 => 15527

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #26)

> 
> I don't have much hope that this will get fixed for Mageia 5 though, and
> we're struggling with the other blockers, so I move this one to the Mageia 6
> tracker. It can be fixed after the release via an update btw (at least the
> post-install configuration issue).

I think this one should be removed from the Mga6 tracker (with many more old bugs)

What about moving them to a Mageia7 "Nice to finally get this fixed" tracker?

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #27)
> I think this one should be removed from the Mga6 tracker (with many more old
> bugs)
> 
> What about moving them to a Mageia7 "Nice to finally get this fixed" tracker?

Sounds good to me :) Such a tracker could be used during the preparation of the proposed features for Mageia 7.

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #28)
> Sounds good to me :) Such a tracker could be used during the preparation of
> the proposed features for Mageia 7.

As bugsquad co-leader, I'm currently advocating against such trackers and for the proper use of the Milestone field instead. Setting milestone to Mageia 7.

Assignee: mageia => mageiatools
Target Milestone: Mageia 6 => Mageia 7

M7 RC: 

Live isos does not ask country during install and afterwards I see all countries that were missing earlier as available.

So IMHO no use to keep this bug open.
If anyone disagrees it can be reopened...

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED