James Carlson wrote:
> Srirama Sharma writes:
>>> Will the upgrade process scrub away the now-unnecessary cache files in
>>> /usr?
>>>
>> No. Currently there is no default mechanism to remove the old
>> 'fonts.cache-1' files which were getting created in the respective font
>> dirs located under '/usr'.
>>
>> So if a user upgrades a machine with the new fontconfig (2.5.0)
>> packages, he would still see old obsolete cache files in the font dirs
>> along with the new cache files located under '/var/cache/fontconfig'.
>
> That's unfortunate. Is it just not feasible to clean up the system?
Without trying to design in ARC, I wonder if this is not something that
could be added to the fc-cache SMF service method script to allow easily
doing this without having to modify the upstream fc-cache. (The script
is not yet integrated into Nevada, but will be shortly to implement
PSARC/2008/106.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
