Bug 496806

Summary: previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Yu Shao <yshao>
Component: cjkuni-fontsAssignee: Caius Chance <K9>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Yu Shao 2009-04-21 09:25:39 UTC
Description of problem:

previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

F10

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm on f10
2. system update
3. zysong disappeared.
  
Actual results:

[root@localhost fonts]# rpm -ivh /home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm
warning: /home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
	/usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch
	fonts-chinese >= 3.02-12.el5 is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch
	ttmkfdir >= 3.0.6 is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch


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Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-04-27 17:52:08 UTC
This is not a problem in Fedora, this is a problem in the third-party font package. It needs to be updated to respect the Fedora packaging conventions (for example we've asked for years not to depend explicitly on ttmkfdir)