Hi all, As you may know, xfs and chkfontpath is going away for Fedora 8. Basically xfs was always an unnecessary complication, that we pulled in because chkfontpath gave us the ability to reconfigure xfs on the fly. With the new fontpath.d change to libXfont, we can acheive the same using symlinks in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and thus, we're getting rid of xfs and chkfontpath. More details here (including the description below): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS Third party font packages, if any, will need to drop their configuration symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d rather than run chkfontpath. Note that you only need to do this if you want the fonts to be available over the old core font mechanism. If you're just doing client-side fonts (as both gtk and qt do nowadays) then you can demolish the chkfontpath call entirely. What I've done for the packages I've updates (the xorg-x11 font packages) is to install the symlink in %install and just list it in the %files section. For 3rd party core font RPMs I recommend using the package name as the symlink name to avoid conflicts if you install the fonts in a non-standard directory. For example, from the ghostscript-fonts specfile: %define fontdir %{_datadir}/fonts/default/ghostscript %define catalogue /etc/X11/fontpath.d ... %install ... # Install catalogue symlink mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{catalogue} ln -sf %{fontdir} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{catalogue}/ghostscript %files ... %dir %{catalogue} %{catalogue}/fonts-default We're hoping to these changes before F8 goes out, so if you maintain a font package that installs core fonts (i.e. it runs chkfontpath), your help in getting these changes done is much appreciated. thanks, Kristian -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
