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[Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@xxxxxxx>]

He was talking about the packages descriptions from 
https://forgesvn1.novell.com/viewsvn/suse-i18n/trunk/packages/

Maybe Karl could help us !

Cheers,

Guillaume



Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> The Saturday 2008-03-08 at 14:55 -0500, Benoit Verduyn wrote:
>
> > I've done a few translations in French mainly for YaST components.
> > I now work on the package branch. It's really a huge work and I don't
> > know how to check if my translations are fine.
> > I've installed OpenSuse 11 Alpha 2 in French with Virtual Box. RPMs
> > descriptions are still in english (even those who have been commited in
> > svn by team coordinator).
>
>
> For Yast you can make your own rpm of the translation only. It's 
> package "yast2-trans-es" (your language code instead of "es", 
> obviously), and you can create a newer version running "checkinstall" 
> giving a newer version; I did (for 10.3) like this:
>
> sudo /usr/sbin/checkinstall --arch=noarch \
>   --pkggroup=Compilaciones/translations \
>   --pkgname=yast2-trans-es \
>   --pkgversion=2.15.6     --pkgrelease=900
>
> Of course, before this (which creates an rpm running "make install") 
> in the yast/{LANG} directory you have to run "make". And before that, 
> make update-po. My notes say:
>
> yast install yast2-devtools.rpm
> cd {LANG}
> make -f Makefile.cvs
> cd po
> make update-po
>
> You need to have downloaded the 50-etc 50-html 50-pot and 50-memory 
> directories for all this to work.
>
>
>
> The lcn branch is more difficult, there is no single rpm you can make 
> with all translations, I understand. I didn't make it.
>
> However, you'd still need the update-po:
>
> autoreconf --force --install
> ./configure
> cd {LANG}
> make -f Makefile.svn
> make update-po
>
> I wonder what a "make install" would install in this branch :-?
>
>
> > It would be helpful because it's sometimes difficult to understand to
> > which package a message belongs to. So I don't have the context to do a
> > better translation.
>
> True. More so for the lcn branch.
>
> Ah, there is a very large file, update-desktop-files.{LANG}.po, that 
> grows almost by the day. I think this one contains descriptions. I 
> "hate" it.
>
> Some teams only translate part of this file: those messages used by 
> Yast. Just search for the word "yast" in the comments part.
>
>
> As for the huge task... I assume that Canadian French is different 
> than, what do you call it, European French? And assuming the European 
> French branch is more complete, I suppose you could start copying the 
> French translations over the French Canadian branch, then review and 
> modify whatever is different for you. Still, a daunting task.
>
> Another method, preferable, is to train (*) your kbabel on the French 
> branch, then tell it to do a rough (fuzzy) translations of the 
> Canadian files. Only untranslated messages would be rough translated, 
> and left fuzzy for you to review.
>
> (*) If you don't know how to train kbabel, I'll explain. Or read it in 
> the Spanish wiki, I wrote it there ;-p
>
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.
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