There are hard coded dependancies on XFree86-xfs package, which needs to be fixed before xorg-x11 can be enabled in the development tree. The following is found in the spec file: BuildPreReq: XFree86-xfs This was present because the %install section uses "/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir", however mkfontdir has not been in the XFree86-xfs package for quite a long time now, so this dependancy is bogus. mkfontdir should be getting called at font installation time, instead of during package build time however, so this dependancy should just be removed, and the call to mkfontdir should be removed as well. The %pre/post scripts need to be modified to call mkfontdir like the XFree86 and xorg-x11 font installation scripts do, so that there is consistency with font installation across the distribution. Also, when mkfontdir is used, it needs to have the umask set to 133 first, ie: umask 133 ; /path/to/mkfontdir . Otherwise it relies on root's umask, which could be changed. This can result in fonts.dir files that get created with the wrong permissions and can prevent the xfs font server or X server from starting up properly.
Another problem I found: Requires: XFree86-75dpi-fonts
Just noticed this ... * Thu Jan 23 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh> 8.0-7 - remove the requirement of XFree86-100dpi-fonts. The 75dpi one must have just gotten overlooked.
Fixed in 8.0-12. Thanks!!
Ok cool, thanks for the quick update!