On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:59 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Forwarding to the right list (not that the two example package follow
> the provisional guidelines on the fontconfig front, and I don't care
> much about the core font side myself)
>
>
> -------- Message transféré --------
> De: Hans de Goede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi
>
> On both my F-8 x86_64 live-dvd installation and my (clean) F-8 i386 install
> dvd
> installation, not all scriptlets for font-packages have properly run.
>
> Taking /etc/X11/fontpath.d/fonts-default (urw-fonts) as example:
> -On the x86_64 live dvd install, only fonts.scale is present, iow
> mkfontdir and fc-cache have not been run, even though they are in the
> scripts:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -q --scripts urw-fonts
> urw-fonts-2.4-1.fc8.noarch
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> {
> umask 133
> mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 || :
> `which mkfontdir` /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 || :
> fc-cache /usr/share/fonts
> } &> /dev/null || :
>
> -On the i386 dvd install, nothing was run, so not only mkfontdir and
> fc-cache were not run, but also mkfontscale has not been run
>
> The strange thing is fontconfig is actually required, so atleast the fc-cache
> file should have been created.
Fontconfig doesn't store cache files in the directory anymore. They go
in /var/cache/fontconfig. That's been the case for a while.
> As for the other two not being created, well that is to be expected if the
> necessary packages are not added to any Requires.
>
> Why are these files generated on install anyways, I understand this used to
> be
> usefull back in the days when multiple packages would install files under one
> dir, but isn't it so that most font dirs now only contain fonts from one
> package?
I don't understand. When are you suggesting they should be generated?
> Note that this is not isolated to urw-fonts, ghostscript-fonts for example
> has
> the same problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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