Font packages changes required for dropping chkfontpath/xfs
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 19:27:30 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 04:26 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> >From packaging issue:
>
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote, at 07/31/2007 03:52 AM +9:00:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As you may know, xfs and chkfontpath is going away for Fedora 8.
> >
> > Third party font packages, if any, will need to drop their configuration
> > symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d rather than run chkfontpath.
> >
> > What I've done for the packages I've updates (the xorg-x11 font
> > packages) is to install the symlink in %install and just list it in the
> > %files section.
> >
> > %define fontdir %{_datadir}/fonts/default/ghostscript
> > %define catalogue /etc/X11/fontpath.d
> > ...
> >
> > %install
> > ...
> > # Install catalogue symlink
> > mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{catalogue}
> > ln -sf %{fontdir} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{catalogue}/ghostscript
>
> The symlink should be not absolute but relative, shouldn't be?
Which will do you exactly no good, because the only path component they
have in common, is / .
Seriously. What does a relative symlink win you here?
- ajax
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