Spec URL: http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/brettfont-fonts.spec SRPM URL: http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/brettfont-fonts-1.0-1.fc8.src.rpm Description: I made this on 2005-10-04 when my math professor told me my handwriting was too messy to submit for assignments. So I did our next assigment in OpenOffice.org and used my font to hand it in! I got 80/80 on it :)
could you please recheck the URL of the spec? I get 404 - Page could not be found
Oops, sorry about that, it helps to put them in the public_html directory :)
Same spec, new SRPM - http://jstanley.fedoraproject.org/brettfont-fonts-1.0-2.fc8.src.rpm Changed the %description to reflect the package rather than upstream's whimsical story :)
Only looked at the spec since the SRPM is not reachable. Anyway: 1. Spec is a textbook copy of the official template → OK 2. Source is correctly licensed and from a trusty provider → OK Approved Some optional comments 1. you do not need the cp in %prep. Just use %{SOURCE0} in %install directly (and save a few electrons) 2. for releases ≥ F9 you can drop the -f in fc-cache 3. Upstream TTF file name is fugly. Fontconfig will work the same no matter what of course but you should consider changing it to something better in the install ttf line 4. it's somewhat dangerous to use 1.0 as version for upstreams with lax release discipline. They sometimes update the file in-place later without changing the TTF metadata version (1.0 is the default for the version field in many tools, thus unfortunately it does not always mean the author really decided this was release 1.0). For this reason I've used timestamps as versions in the gfs font packages 5. bonus points if you can get upstream to release its font in a nice versioned archive with detached license text.
When you're done please do not forget moving it to the "packaged" part of the fonts pipeline, and also referencing (as optional) in the @fonts comps group
Yeah, I thought I changed the name to something more palatable in the %prep, which I will change to %install per your suggestion. Should I just use today as the version, or is there some way to tell from the TTF metadata (or just use the date it was posted upstream?). Look for a new version and CVS checkin tonight.
New Package CVS Request ======================= Package Name: brettfont-fonts Short Description: A handwriting font Owners: jstanley Branches: F-8 F-9 EL-4 EL-5 InitialCC: Cvsextras Commits: yes
cvs done.
brettfont-fonts-20080506-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
brettfont-fonts-20080506-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
brettfont-fonts-20080506-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update brettfont-fonts'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3468