RPM with dictionaries

[Remi Collet]

Bjorge Solli a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I manage a lot of fedora core 5/6 (and soon 7) boxes and have
> multi-lingual users who want dictionaries in thunderbird. Since the
> dictionary folder is in
> /usr/lib[64]/thunderbird-<version>/components/myspell normal users
> cannot install dictionaries themselves, and I would have to install
> them (dump the dic and iff files) in that dir every time thunderbird
> gets an update, I was wondering if anyone have a better solution for
> this than to make a script that runs in cron and fixes this on
> thunderbird updates. Ideally I would like the thunderbird rpm
> maintainer to also make an acompanying rpm with all the dictionaries
> (or separate for each language) so that these files are installed on
> updates of thunderbird itself. There are of course other ways of
> fixing this, I just want to know what other people do.
I'm used to build thunderbird-langpack-fr with the french dictionaries.

You can have a look to my spec file :
http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/SPEC/thunderbird-langpack-fr-2.0.spec

Remi.