this is a proposed ebuild which will install different variations of the vga font. normally you only get this font if you install bochs, but i have some applications which have terminal graphics for VGA on systems which dont have bochs installed. -----------------cut----------------- # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ DESCRIPTION="A Collection of ANSI Compliant VGA Fonts" SRC_URI="http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/vgafonts.tar.gz" HOMEPAGE="http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html" LICENSE="public-domain" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="x86 sparc ppc" DEPEND="x11-base/xfree" S=${WORKDIR}/${PN} FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ src_unpack() { mkdir ${WORKDIR}/${P} cd ${WORKDIR}/${P} tar xfz ${DISTDIR}/vgafonts.tar.gz } src_install() { insopts -m0644 insinto ${FONTDIR} doins ${WORKDIR}/${P}/vgafonts/*.pcf doins ${WORKDIR}/${P}/vgafonts/*.pcf.Z doins ${WORKDIR}/${P}/vgafonts/*.bdf doins ${WORKDIR}/${P}/vgafonts/*.bdf.Z doins ${WORKDIR}/${P}/vgafonts/*.fnt } pkg_postinst() { /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir ${FONTDIR} /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale ${FONTDIR} } Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -falign-functions=4 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 avi crypt foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga sdl tcpd pam libwww esd imlib motif opengl cdr wavelan pcmcia X -gnome gtk gtk2 kde qt tcltk usb cups ssl mozilla moznomail moznocompose mmx sse xml2 apm acpi pnp mysql sdk oggvorbis encode snmp spell truetype java perl python ruby innodb samba gpm oss alsa ldap"
we'll have a fonts herd soon, will reassign it to them.