Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary packages and i18n

[Meir Kriheli]

On Saturday 18 May 2002 14:27, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Saturday 18 May 2002 12:35, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> > 1. I need to distribute precompiled binaries, can this be accomplished
> > (via tbz2 ?)
>
> Use --buildpkg which builds a binary package and use --usepkg when merging
> to use that package (they are put into /usr/portage/packages/All)

I need to enable the users to download the pre-built pacakges. If I emerge 
rsync will those packages be downloaded, or should I write special script for 
that ?

> > 2. Can ebuilds be described in more than 1 language ? If not, how to
> > accomplish this (at least 2 languages, more preffered)?
>
> The description is just one var in the ebuild. But how about implementing
> all that i18n in portage (or portage2) in gentoo so we can all benefit ?
>
> Alex

I'd be glad to do that. What's the status on portage 2 arrival ?

The developers guide at gentoo.org says the description is one line describing 
the package.

I'm looking into something more detailed (even the sub-folders). That way I 
can have users browsing the portage tree in their native language. 

So if
app-cdr 
 |--cdrtools - ... the description
 |--cdbakeoven - .. the description
app-games
 |--chromium - ....
 |--gltron - ....

will have the groups and the descriptions show up in their native language. I 
thought taking XML-UNICODE approach.

Another approach could be using a single file under each ebuild holding the 
language descriptions in a simple shell var, e.g: EN="blabla" HU="bloobloo" 
etc... with default fallback to the English description in the ebuild.

Can I store an XML tree inside the ebuild's decription, or this would be an 
overkill ?

Or can the files dir under the ebuilds be a good candidate for this ?
--
Meir Kriheli