odd file-requires in f7 packages
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu May 17 19:14:57 UTC 2007
seth vidal wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I sifted through all the file-requires in f7 from here:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/f7-final-current/i386/
>
> and I generated this list:
> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/what-requires-crazy-files.txt
>
Good work.
These 2 are mine:
xblast-0:2.10.4-2.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
chess-0:1.0-5.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
These are both games which used to be shipped with some none free font, since
these fonts get openened and rendered directly not through X / Xftconfig, I
know no other way to make sure those files are there, basicly the (patched)
code for this games does:
fopen("/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf", "r"). Since fonts have moved
around sometimes in the past, and that will break this games, I've written the
Requires as file requires, so that I get broken requires report from the
requires checking scripts during the devel cycle instead of BZ entries from
users that it crashes once the new font layout hits the streets in the next
fedora release.
I'm open to suggestions to doing this smarter. And ship a private copy of
Vera.ttf is not a good suggestion!
Regards,
Hans
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