[Localization] language pack error

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

When you extract the files - do the .mo files appear ? Sometimes
msgfmt chokes on the PO files, resulting in a bad pack. Those packs
will not have the .mo files in them. The chown error should be
harmless.
Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Myckel Habets <myckel at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:01:05 +0900
> Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>
> Hello,
>
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Myckel Habets
>> <myckel at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody,
>> >
>> > The Dutch language pack seems to throw an error when trying to
>> > install it.
>> >
>> > chown missing operand after 'olpc:olpc'
>> > Try 'chown --help' for more information.
>> >
>> > The language files don't seem to get installed.
>>     How did you confirm that?  If you obserbed only the error,
>> language files seemed to get installed properly. (see below)
>
> I looked at the timestamps of the translation files. These were still
> the old ones (not the same as in the package). But I could be mistaken.
>
>>
>> >
>> > Are there more people who encountered this error? Any solutions?
>>    I have seen similar behavior with langpack for my language
>> (Japanese).
>>
>>    By "./*_lang_pack_v2.sh --keep --noexec", you could unpack contents
>> the pack and review setup.sh in it.
>>    The error message should come from this line:
>>
>>        find /home/olpc/Activities -uid 0 -print0 | xargs -0 chown
>> olpc:olpc
>>
>>    It try to fix file owner if there is something wrong.
>
> Owner of the files and dir are olpc:olpc, so that looks right.
>
>>    So if "xargs -0 chown olpc:olpc" balk no argument error, there
>> should not any wrong stuff on your box :-)
>>
>>    hope this helps.
>> /Korakurider
>
> Thanks, I'll have a further look into this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Myckel
>
>
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