Font packages changes required for dropping chkfontpath/xfs
Mamoru Tasaka
mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Jul 30 19:26:55 UTC 2007
>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?
Mamoru
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