On 20.12.2009, at 17:14, Martin Costabel wrote: > Claudius Link wrote: > [] >> Can't find an appropriate resource fork in /Library/Fonts/Arial >> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing applesystemfonts (--install): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> applesystemfonts >> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 >> Failed: can't install package applesystemfonts-1.1-1 >> ---------- >> It tuns out that this file (and several others) are empty. >> $ ls -l /Library/Fonts/Arial >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 0 Aug 22 2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial > > Careful there: On 10.5 and earlier, this file is a "resorce fork font", which > means that 'ls -l' shows a size of 0 Bytes (the data fork), but 'ls -l@' > shows something nonzero: > > ls -l@ /Library/Fonts/Arial > -rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 Mar 21 2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial > com.apple.FinderInfo 32 > com.apple.ResourceFork 317313 You are right there. But the concerned font files didn't contain a resource fork (-rw-rw-r-- instead of -rw-rw-r--@)
> /Library/Fonts/Arial never came with the system; it was installed by some > 3rd-party software. I think it must come from 10.4. Maybe the resource fork > was stripped on the way from 10.4 to 10.6? That is what I suspect as well. For the 0 sized font files there exists corresponding .ttf files > Is applesystemfonts still useful on 10.6 (or even on 10.5)?. I am curious, > because Font handling in X11 has changed a lot since the days when > applesystemfonts was created. I actually don't know. I installed it to satisfy dependencies. Is there a way how I can check this? Claudius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
