Bug 154067
| Summary: | postinstall script incorrectly runs mkfontdir | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Gerald Britton <gbritton> |
| Component: | urw-fonts | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | F7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-06-15 13:37:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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it's fixed in FC6 and newest. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: urw-fonts's postinstall scriptlet runs mkfontdir supplying non-existant encodings directories resulting in fonts.dir failing to be created. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): urw-fonts-2.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install urw-fonts (prior to any X install) 2. 3. Actual Results: no fonts.dir created Expected Results: fonts.dir created properly Additional info: Commentary from mharris on the correct solution to this issue from IRC: <mharris> xfs initscript runs mkfontdir in the same dirs always anyway, which invalidates mkfontdir being called with any args from any %post script <mharris> I've told our font packagers 1000 times do not pass args to ttmkfdir or mkfontdir, as they will get blown away anyway, the first time xfs starts up <mharris> Well, not necessarily the first time, but some time later perhaps, giving users different results <mharris> All font packages should run mkfontdir/ttmkfdir/mkfontscale *only* the same way the xorg-x11.spec file does, and xfs.init <mharris> Anything else will be overwritten. <mharris> The only exception, is fonts.scale files in Type1 font directories. <mharris> Because we do not ship type1inst <mharris> At some point I plan on testing mkfontscale with all type1 fonts we ship and comparing the results it generates with the supplied fonts.scale files. <mharris> If the results are identical, or it can be proven the static fonts.scale files are wrong in some way, I'll be calling mkfontscale on Type1 fonts always too. <mharris> The reason for this, is 100% consistency. <mharris> If args are needed absolutely for some certain font, then either the font is buggy, or the defaults in the tools aren't quite perfect and should be changed. <mharris> You can paste what I said into the bug report too if you like.