Bug 82083 - Fontconfig rpm replaces /etc/fonts/fonts.conf on install
Summary: Fontconfig rpm replaces /etc/fonts/fonts.conf on install
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: fontconfig
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-17 09:12 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-17 14:40:59 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2003-01-17 09:12:55 UTC
Fontconfig rpm replaces /etc/fonts/fonts.conf on install. 

This is real annoying for people like me that customized /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
and have to put it back after every upgrade. Moreover this has no justification,
as far as I can tell the only thing that has been changing in this file for
quite a few rpm versions is the timestamp.

Please treat /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as a noreplace file

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-01-17 14:40:59 UTC
Read the top of the file... local configuration should go in local.conf.

(It only really make sense to make a file noreplace if it isn't expected
to change significantly. But fonts.conf encodes a lot of the details of
how we are setting up fonts.)

Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2003-01-17 14:53:05 UTC
Maybe one should put a big fat warning at the top of the file then.
Right now I really don't think anyone will notice the local.conf reference, it's
just lost in the mass.

Now I know it's here, I'll try to make good use of it

Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2003-01-17 16:13:54 UTC
In fact there *is* a warning.
But much too fat to be of any use.
I've just realized why I never saw the local conf ref : I just zap out when
people start writing about make install behaviour in rpm-provided files.


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