Bugzilla Bug 23958

Hello,

XFree ships with cyrillic fonts from the Cronyx foundry. These are not installed 
by xfree-base. The fonts in X are somewhat outdated but better than nothing. 

My ebuild (attached, cronyx-fonts-2.3.1.ebuild.gz) installs the latest version
of these fonts, as available here:
http://koi8.pp.ru/frame.html?unix.html#unix_fonts

These fonts are essential to Russian-language users, since no default Gentoo
fonts supply:
a) good cyrillic terminal fonts (andale mono is not, IMO)
b) cyrillic versions of standard X fonts (helvetica, times, etc)

My ebuild is based off a few of the existing font ebuilds. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install all font packages available in Gentoo
2. Update your X font paths
3. Open xfontsel
4. Click on foundry; no "cronyx" is available.

Alternatively,

ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/crox*

brings up nothing.

Actual Results:  
No fonts available :)

Created an attachment (id=14165) [edit]
cronyx fonts ebuild

Sorry for the long delay. I changed the font path from
/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts to /usr/share/fonts and added it to CVS.
Thanks for the bug report!

Thanks for adding the ebuild. There's a slight problem, IMO, with changing the
font path to /usr/share/fonts. The ebuild installs into three directories under
that root: 100dpi, 75dpi, and misc. My original setup was very convenient,
since you didn't have to add new X font paths to use the fonts. Without a font
server, you would just say:

xset fp rehash

to instantaneously get access to them, without restarting the X server or
modifying any settings. 

The same 3 directories don't make sense under /usr/share/fonts. If you think
the right place is in share/fonts, at least make it /usr/share/fonts/cronyx.
Then, there should be some instructions about adding font paths:

einfo "In order to make X see the fonts, you need to add the"
einfo "following lines to the files section of your "
einfo "/etc/X11/XF86Config (or the XOrg equivalent):"
einfo "  FontPath \"/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/100dpi/:unscaled\""
einfo "  FontPath \"/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/misc/:unscaled\""
einfo "  FontPath \"/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/75dpi/:unscaled\""
einfo ""
einfo "In order to make them accessible to your current X 
einfo "session, run:
einfo "  xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/cronyx/100dpi/:unscaled,\
einfo "/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/misc/:unscaled,\
einfo "/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/75dpi/:unscaled
einfo "  xset fp rehash

However, if you agree with the considerations of convenience, please revert the
font path, and add lines to the effect of:

einfo "If you're currently running X (no font server) type"
einfo "  xset fp rehash"
einfo "to make X see the new fonts."

Thanks a lot!

Reopening till the path is sorted out.

Once you switch to xorg, you won't need to add any configuration for those
directories because all fonts install there.

That said, in my opinion all external fonts packages should stay out of those
directories, so it's easier to diagnose fonts or font packages that cause
problems by removing directories.

Updated to use /usr/share/fonts/cronyx/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}
and added instructions. Thanks for the suggestion.

Might also want to mention adding the dir to /etc/fonts/local.conf.