Bug 93034 – xorg-x11-6.8.99.x: collision errors because of new FontEncDir

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgi Georgiev 2005-05-17 23:35:55 UTC]

the xorg-x11-6.8.99.x series cause collision-protect errors with the encodings. The new ebuild tries to install them in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/encodings, which does not exist on ${ROOT} because it is a symlink to /usr/share/fonts and therefore /usr/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/* is claimed to not be owned by any package.

Turns out that FontEncDir was introduced and it defaults to $(LIBDIR)/fonts/encodings. The value of ENCODINGSDIR is set to FontEncDir in 6.8.99 but it used to default to $(FONTDIR)/encodings with 6.8.2.

The fix for the ebuild is:

         echo "#define FontDir /usr/share/fonts" >> ${HOSTCONF}
+        echo "#define FontEncDir /usr/share/fonts" >> ${HOSTCONF}
         echo "#define BinDir /usr/bin" >> ${HOSTCONF}

In fact I don't know if that's the proper solution. Testing from my overlay right now... may take a while.

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-05-18 08:06:24 UTC]

Sounds good. Let us know how things go.

[Comment 2 Georgi Georgiev 2005-05-18 17:17:17 UTC]

It had merged fine.

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-05-18 19:19:29 UTC]

I actually think this would be better, after looking into it a bit:

+        echo "#define FontEncDir $(FONTDIR)/encodings" >> ${HOSTCONF}

Could you give it a shot?

[Comment 4 Georgi Georgiev 2005-05-18 19:33:34 UTC]

Oh, my.... I type without thinking.

I just submitted bug #93129 which was the reason to reinstall X a few times
already and see these problems. I'll go ahead and test your recommendation now.

[Comment 5 Georgi Georgiev 2005-05-18 19:36:13 UTC]

Ah, I changed that to single quotes, as FONTDIR from $(FONTDIR) would be
executed in a subshell if using double quotes.

[Comment 6 Georgi Georgiev 2005-05-18 20:15:49 UTC]

Works like a charm (with the single quotes)

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-05-23 19:38:16 UTC]

Fixed in 6.8.99.5. Thanks!