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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the glare package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: glare\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: glare@packages.debian.org\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-09-30 18:47+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:2001
+msgid "Set up a database for Glare?"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+"No database has been set up for Glare to use. Before continuing, you should "
+"make sure you have the following information:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+" * the type of database that you want to use;\n"
+" * the database server hostname (that server must allow TCP connections from "
+"this\n"
+"   machine);\n"
+" * a username and password to access the database."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+"If some of these requirements are missing, do not choose this option and run "
+"with regular SQLite support."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+"You can change this setting later on by running \"dpkg-reconfigure -plow "
+"glare\"."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:3001
+msgid "Authentication server hostname:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:3001
+msgid ""
+"Please specify the hostname of the authentication server. Typically this is "
+"also the hostname of the OpenStack Identity Service (Keystone)."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Translators: a "tenant" in OpenStack world is
+#. an entity that contains one or more username/password couples.
+#. It's typically the tenant that will be used for billing. Having more than one
+#. username/password is very helpful in larger organization.
+#. You're advised to either keep "tenant" without translating it
+#. or keep it aside with your translation. Example for French:
+#. proprietaire ("tenant")
+#: ../glare-common.templates:4001
+msgid "Authentication server tenant name:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Translators: a "tenant" in OpenStack world is
+#. an entity that contains one or more username/password couples.
+#. It's typically the tenant that will be used for billing. Having more than one
+#. username/password is very helpful in larger organization.
+#. You're advised to either keep "tenant" without translating it
+#. or keep it aside with your translation. Example for French:
+#. proprietaire ("tenant")
+#: ../glare-common.templates:4001
+msgid "Please specify the authentication server tenant name."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:5001
+msgid "Authentication server username:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:5001
+msgid "Please specify the username to use with the authentication server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:6001
+msgid "Authentication server password:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:6001
+msgid "Please specify the password to use with the authentication server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:7001
+msgid "IP address of your RabbitMQ host:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:7001 ../glare-common.templates:8001
+#: ../glare-common.templates:9001
+msgid ""
+"In order to interoperate with other components of OpenStack, this package "
+"needs to connect to a central RabbitMQ server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:7001
+msgid "Please specify the IP address of that server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:8001
+msgid "Username for connection to the RabbitMQ server:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:8001
+msgid "Please specify the username used to connect to the RabbitMQ server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:9001
+msgid "Password for connection to the RabbitMQ server:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-common.templates:9001
+msgid "Please specify the password used to connect to the RabbitMQ server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:2001
+msgid "Register Glare in the Keystone endpoint catalog?"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+"Each OpenStack service (each API) should be registered in order to be "
+"accessible. This is done using \"keystone service-create\" and \"keystone "
+"endpoint-create\". This can be done automatically now."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:2001
+msgid ""
+"Note that you will need to have an up and running Keystone server on which "
+"to connect using the Keystone authentication token."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:3001
+msgid "Keystone server IP address:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:3001
+msgid ""
+"Please enter the IP address of the Keystone server, so that glare-api can "
+"contact Keystone to do the Glare service and endpoint creation."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:4001
+msgid "Keystone admin name:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:4001 ../glare-api.templates:5001
+#: ../glare-api.templates:6001
+msgid ""
+"To register the service endpoint, this package needs to know the Admin "
+"login, name, project name, and password to the Keystone server."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:5001
+msgid "Keystone admin project name:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: password
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:6001
+msgid "Keystone admin password:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:7001
+msgid "Glare endpoint IP address:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:7001
+msgid "Please enter the IP address that will be used to contact Glare."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:7001
+msgid ""
+"This IP address should be accessible from the clients that will use this "
+"service, so if you are installing a public cloud, this should be a public IP "
+"address."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:8001
+msgid "Name of the region to register:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../glare-api.templates:8001
+msgid ""
+"OpenStack supports using availability zones, with each region representing a "
+"location. Please enter the zone that you wish to use when registering the "
+"endpoint."
+msgstr ""