[Fedora-packaging] Re: why not %{_datadir} on fonts scripletsnippet

Jens Petersen petersen at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 02:32:17 UTC 2007


Nicolas Mailhot さんは書きました:
> Le Jeu 26 juillet 2007 15:57, Rex Dieter a écrit :
>> Jens Petersen wrote:
> 
>>> I'll [wait] for responses before changing it to:
>>>    %{_bindir}/fc-cache %{_datadir}/fonts
>> do it.  Maybe even go one step further, and either say change to
>> %{_bindir}/fc-cache <font_dir_actually_used_in_this_pkg>

Yes, actually it seems this is probably better and the right thing to do.

> However, I'm not sure if pointing fc-cache just at this dir is worth
> it. Asking it to refresh everything is safer.

It seems better since clock skew created say during firstboot can cause 
"fc-cache %{_datadir}/fonts" not to update newly installed fonts if the 
timestamp of %{_datadir}/fonts is ahead of the just installed fonts 
directory.  This can actually easily be reproduced.

So I would like to second changing the %post scriptlet to pointing to 
the actual font directory.  I am not sure yet if %postun should be 
changed too?  The alternative would be always to use "fc-cache -f" but 
that is rather a heavy operation.

Jens

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Jens Petersen
Internationalization Team
Red Hat




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