Re: [PATCH] never try to validate cache files when using fc-cache -f

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Le jeudi 02 février 2006 à 14:50 -0500, Patrick Lam a écrit :
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:47, Patrick Lam wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>	if (!force && FcDirCacheValid (dir) && FcDirCacheHasCurrentArch (dir))
> >>
> >>checks for cache validity and ought to ensure that -f will try to save
> >>the cache files.  Of course it might fail for some other reason.
> > 
> > Hmm, indeed. but I want one switch to make sure no corrupt cache files stay 
> > around, as we have way too many problems with them. 
> 
> It would be great to have a --really-force flag, then.  The man page
> doesn't think about the issues involved in multiarch cache files.
> 
> >>-f works for me.  Does it not work for you?  What should the semantics
> >>of -f be?  Perhaps there should be -f and --really-force, which would
> >>always remove cache files; that's certainly not what we want to give
> >>when we make install.
> > 
> > 
> > what does make install have to do with it (curious)? Indeed, the normal 
> > behaviour whould be to just run "fc-cache" I think. 
> 
> make install runs fc-cache -f -v, as I'd imagine postinst scripts would
> as well.

Well, I'm doing fc-cache -f in %post of fontconfig package but older
version of caches are sometime in the way and only rm
-f /var/cache/fontconfig/* can fix it :(

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mandriva

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