Hello I hope you don't mind top posting... Anyway here is full stuff anyway: steki@nb0015:~> grep find_lang /usr/lib/rpm/macros # %find_lang %{name} %find_lang %{_rpmconfigdir}/find-lang.sh %{buildroot} if you wanna see script use steki@nb0015:~> cat `rpm --eval %{_rpmconfigdir}`/find-lang.sh or just output use steki@nb0015:~> `rpm --eval %{_rpmconfigdir}`/find-lang.sh Usage: /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh TOP_DIR PACKAGE_NAME [prefix] where TOP_DIR is the top of the tree containing the files to be processed--should be $RPM_BUILD_ROOT usually. TOP_DIR gets sed'd out of the output list. PACKAGE_NAME is the %{name} of the package. This should also be the basename of the .mo files. the output is written to PACKAGE_NAME.lang unless $3 is given in which case output is written to $3 (note that $3 is appended to if given). Additional options: --without-gnome do not find GNOME help files --without-kde do not find KDE help files --with-qt find Qt translation files --with-man find localized man pages --all-name match all package/domain names --without-mo do not find locale files steki@nb0015:~> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:

Where is %find_lang documented?

What parameters does it take and what does it do?

I am not looking for cargo cult programming examples, but real documentation.

google is useless it gives the address of a gazzilion spec files that use it.

Why is it that packaging can only be learned as folklore?

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