Bug 9357

Summary:	x11-base/xfree missing encodings.dir file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arkadi Shishlov 2002-10-19 19:03:10 UTC

xfree package do not install this file:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir
XFree86 project provide it in Xfenc.tgz archive in binary installation. Many
things just don't work without it. iso8859-13 characters from Unicode TTF, for
example.
BTW, it is useless to create fonts.dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/
as pkg_postinst() do and adding it to XFS fontpath is not a good idea too.

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-20 01:59:14 UTC

Check xfree-4.2.1, as its fixed here.

Comment 2 Arkadi Shishlov 2002-10-20 11:43:28 UTC

encodings.dir - OK.
No fonts.dir in encodings/ - OK.
Small glitch to fix - delete encodings/ from /etc/X11/fs/config fontpath
(/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.1/xfs.config).