On Tuesday 04 October 2011 22:36:08 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 10/04/11 14:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i'd like to run fc-cache against a different tree than "/". a lot of > > utils have a "--root" flag for this sort of thing. this is useful for > > distros which are preparing packages for installation. it avoids having > > to run fc-cache on every system that deploys the fonts. > > > > so if i ran `fc-cache -s --root /a/b/c`, it would look at > > /a/b/c/etc/fonts/ instead of /etc/fonts/. then every dir that those > > config files said to use would transparently be prefixed with /a/b/c. > > so if my config said <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> and > > <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>, it would instead scan > > /a/b/c/usr/share/fonts and store the cache in > > /a/b/c/var/cache/fontconfig. > > > > how hard do people envision this being ? > > Why can't you just do "chroot /a/b/c fc-cache -s"? not everyone has that access. building as root is a bad idea. long term, i want to do this for cross-compiling, and obviously chroot won't work either (ignoring workarounds involving qemu). -mike
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