2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e94bd7e..b02b7d8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+- force locale to be C (mga#95, Pascal Terjan)
+  (when packages contain translated summary/description genhdlist2 would embed
+  them instead of the English version)
+
 Version 6.0 - 15 December 2010, by Per Øyvind Karlsen
 
 - compress xml files with '--text' flag passed to lzma (shrinks
diff --git a/genhdlist2 b/genhdlist2
index 59021c7..463cde1 100644
--- a/genhdlist2
+++ b/genhdlist2
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ sub main() {
 
     $options{no_incremental} ||= $options{no_hdlist};
 
+    # Force locale to be C
+    # We don't translate anything but we would get translated package info and
+    # wrongly put it in hdlists
+    # https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95
+    $ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C';
+
     do_it($rpms_dir, %options);
 }