msttcorefonts

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 12:50 -0400, Mauriat M wrote:
> 2008/4/25 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >  > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:59 -0400, Mauriat M wrote:
> >
> > >> Try this:
> >  >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg01960.html
> >  >
> >  > Well, as far as I can tell that thread pretty much just confirms
> >  > what I said, i.e. msttcorefonts requires chkfontpath, and it's not
> >  > in the F9 repos. It appears to be a bug.
> >
> >  The message that Mauriat pointed to contains a spec file with the
> >  chkfontpath requirement removed.  Does that not work?  (I've not tried
> >  it myself, since I don't want or need the MS fonts.  But I don't see
> >  any mention of chkfontpath in the spec there.)
> 
> Although I created it in F8, the generated RPM worked correctly for me
> in F9-Preview.

I tried it using the spec file in the thread. I was confused because the
comment at the top says:

# This is the msttcorefonts spec file as distributed from
# http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/.

but in fact it isn't.

Everything works now, thanks.

poc