On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:29:49 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:12:26PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:54:53 +0200, Dirk Weinhardt wrote:
(...) >> > Why is apt still querying German translations and how can that be >> > avoided? >> >> (...) >> >> Mmm, interesting question. >> >> I have "es" (Spanish) and "en" (English) locales in my wheezy system >> and get sporadic updates for both -sometimes Spanish, sometimes English >> and sometimes for both- package descriptions but true is that I never >> paid attention on this because I guess it only affects to >> "descriptions" not the packages nor application themselves :-? >> >> Anyway, I would also like to know how this is managed, I mean, if >> language package descriptions updates depend on the number of locale(s) >> defined in the system or if it takes their settings from another >> source. > > According to 'man apt.conf', Acquire::Languages can be set to declare > which translations one wants downloading. The pseudo-language > "environment" (which is part of the default setting) specifies that apt > should check $LC_MESSAGES. However, if this doesn't include a "de" > language, then it might actually be that Acquire::Languages was set at > install time. > > Check /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/* for Acquire::Languages. Thanks much for the detailed explanation :-) In lenny -which I run in my main computer- "man apt.conf" does not contain the language section (or I have badly bypassed it...). Good to know where this setting comes from and how to tweak it. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.01.15.34...@gmail.com
