Re: [Fwd: Font issues (mkfontdir & friends not getting run) with F-8]

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:59 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Forwarding to the right list (not that the two example package follow
> > the provisional guidelines on the fontconfig front, and I don't care
> > much about the core font side myself)
> >
> >
> > -------- Message transféré --------
> > De: Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On both my F-8 x86_64 live-dvd installation and my (clean) F-8 i386 install dvd 
> > installation, not all scriptlets for font-packages have properly run.
> >
> > Taking /etc/X11/fontpath.d/fonts-default (urw-fonts) as example:
> > -On the x86_64 live dvd install, only fonts.scale is present, iow
> >   mkfontdir and fc-cache have not been run, even though they are in the
> >   scripts:
> > [hans localhost ~]$ rpm -q --scripts urw-fonts
> > urw-fonts-2.4-1.fc8.noarch
> > postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> > {
> >     umask 133
> >     mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 || :
> >     `which mkfontdir` /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 || :
> >     fc-cache /usr/share/fonts
> > } &> /dev/null || :
> >
> > -On the i386 dvd install, nothing was run, so not only mkfontdir and
> >   fc-cache were not run, but also mkfontscale has not been run
> >
> > The strange thing is fontconfig is actually required, so atleast the fc-cache 
> > file should have been created.
>
> Fontconfig doesn't store cache files in the directory anymore.  They go
> in /var/cache/fontconfig.  That's been the case for a while.

Ah, then the packages also should no longer ghost fc-cache in the fonts dir.

> > As for the other two not being created, well that is to be expected if the 
> > necessary packages are not added to any Requires.
> >
> > Why are these files generated on install anyways, I understand this used to be 
> > usefull back in the days when multiple packages would install files under one 
> > dir, but isn't it so that most font dirs now only contain fonts from one package?
>
> I don't understand.  When are you suggesting they should be generated?

At package buildtime, and then simply include them in the package 
instead of %ghost them and generate them with scriptlets.

Regards,

Hans