Bug 63256 - fonts.dir problems
Summary: fonts.dir problems
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-11 18:57 UTC by Sammy
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-11 18:57:30 UTC
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Description Sammy 2002-04-11 18:57:25 UTC
Version 4.2.0-6.62. Noticed two font issues/problems 
 
1. In the Speedo directory an empty fonts.dir.rpmnew is created. 
 
2. Somehow the rpm still thinks it is touching the local/fonts.dir file. 
    I have local rpms that put fonts.dir into that directory and installing 
    XFree86 rpms show a conflict for that file and need to be forced.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-13 10:49:54 UTC
I've fixed the first glitch in 4.2.0-6.666.

For the second one however, the font directories are owned by the XFree86
packaging, and the auxilliary fonts.dir and similar files are also owned
by XFree86 packaging despite the fact XFree86 does not itself place files
into these directories.  fonts.dir should _never_ be supplied as a static
file in any package, doing so is a bug.  fonts.dir is a file created post
install by mkfontdir.

Your local RPM's should use mkfontdir in their %post script similar to how
our font packages do.  The fonts.dir file should not be owned by your
packages.



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