default font "fixed" in xorg 7.1

[Mike A. Harris]

Dan Horák wrote:
> Mike A. Harris píše v Po 04. 09. 2006 v 16:47 -0400:
>> Dan Horák wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a problem with rebuilding the TinyERP package for Fedora Extras.
>>> It needs to start a X server during the build process, so there is a
>>> "BuildRequires" dependency on xorg-x11-server-xvfb. The X server needs a
>>> default font "fixed", so there is a "BuildRequires" dependency on
>>> xorg-x11-fonts-base. When you look into the fonts-base package than the
>>> font "fixed" is defined in the /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
>>> file. This was sufficient at least until the last build of this package
>>> on July 24. In current Fedora Devel there is a problem because the font
>>> "fixed" cannot be found. So what happened to the font "fixed"?
>>>
>>> You can find the build logs at
>>> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/16094-tinyerp-3.3.0-3.fc6/
>> Each of the X server subpackages that requires fixed/cursor fonts in
>> order to work properly at runtime, should be doing:
>>
>> Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-base
>>
> 
> Yes, this is for runtime, but I need it during the build. Even now all
> servers should depend on fonts-base, so ot should sufficient to make a
> dependency only on the server.

As long as the X server you need (at build or runtime) specifies
"Requires: <the fonts it needs>", and you specify a dep on the
particular X server, then there should be no problem, as your
package will drag in the X server, which will drag in the fonts.

If you require Xvfb, you should be using:

BuildRequires: Xvfb

(not xorg-x11-server-Xvfb)

That will make your package X implementation agnostic.


>> That way at X server installation time, there is a runtime dependency
>> on the fonts that are required to operate properly.  I could have
>> sworn such a dependency was present before, however I could be
>> mistaken, or it's possible the dependency was removed to allow OLPC
>> to be able to install a minimal installation or somesuch.
>>
>> I haven't tracked recent Fedora X packaging though..  it's possible
>> a glitch might have creeped in perhaps.  Check and make sure that
>> The actual fonts are installed, and that there is a valid fonts.dir
>> in the directory.
>>
> 
> I have compared the fonts-base packages from FC5 and devel and they
> differ only in content of the font files (*.pcf.gz). So something must
> be changed in the xorg-x11-server package and I have found a note in the
> changelog for version 1.1.1-10.fc6 (revision 1.130 from July 26):
> "- Fix default font path to match the config file we used to generate"
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11-server/devel/xorg-x11-server.spec?rev=1.165&view=log
> 
> Could someone explain the consequences of this change to me?

I'd suggest to check the changelog to see who made the change, and
drop them an email.

Hope this helps.


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