On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 11:03:48 PM Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am trying to package the droid font family. It appears to be available > only via the android git at: > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+ > /android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts/ > where > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git > defines the git repository. > > This page contains a tgz download link: > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+ > archive/android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts.tar.gz > Unfortunately, the file seems to be generated on the fly and have a > different hash value each time. > > The git-reference method seems to clone all of the repository, which has > about 1.5 GB. I tried several methods by hand, such as > git clone -b android-4.4.4_r2.0.1 https://android.googlesource. > com/platform/frameworks/base.git data/fonts > or > git init; git fetch https://android.googlesource. > com/platform/frameworks/base.git android-4.4.4_r2.0.1 > but all of them apparently download the full repository. > > I also tried > git archive --remote=https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ > frameworks/base.git android-4.4.4_r2.0.1 data/fonts > but the git server apparently does not support this: > fatal: Operation not supported by protocol. > (and I am also not sure that the output would have a fixed hash). > > Do you see any solution to this problem? > Google web fonts has droid font available in zip format via http [1], not sure if the link is works across updates. There is also the mercurial repository hosting all web fonts [2]. It's quite big 4,1G and AFAIK there is no “hg clone --depth=1” [1] http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Droid+Sans:400,700|Droid+Sans+Mono|Droid+Serif:400,700,400italic,700italic [2] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/checkout Andreas > > >
