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Bug 1610757 - RFE: Need an option to set install_langs value for installation (chroot/early install/bootstrap)
Summary: RFE: Need an option to set install_langs value for installation (chroot/early...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: dnf-community
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Reported: 2018-08-01 11:41 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2020-02-26 22:16 UTC (History)
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Github SUSE kiwi issues 771 0 None closed Support setting %_install_langs in the config.xml 2021-01-27 12:42:41 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1673333 0 medium NEW RFE: allow to specify rpm macro 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

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Description Neal Gompa 2018-08-01 11:41:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using DNF as an engine to set up a Linux system (through an installer like DrakX or Anaconda, or through appliance image creation tools like livecd-tools or kiwi), it's not possible to get %_install_langs during initial bootstrap phases because the host rpm is used in that circumstance rather than the target rpm.

In YUM, there's an "override_install_langs" option in yum.conf that can be used to do this, and this can also be passed via the command line to have YUM set this when it executes so that it's respected no matter which RPM is invoked.

Can this please be added to DNF so that tools like appliance-creator, kiwi, etc. can leverage it?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1.0-1.fc29

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KIWI RFE for this: https://github.com/SUSE/kiwi/issues/771
Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2018-08-02 09:29:39 UTC 
For what it's worth, livecd-tools / appliance-tools use DNF's API, while kiwi uses DNF's CLI. It's important that this is configurable through both means.
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