Bug 57922 – xorg-x11 touches fonts.conf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2004-07-21 17:39:29 UTC]

when xorg-x11 installs, it fixes fonts.conf to point to /usr/share/fonts instead of the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

however, when upgrading font-config to 2.2.3, the ebuild nuked the fixed fonts.conf with the broken one and the file now points to the /usr/X11R6/ tree again

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-08 02:40:21 UTC]

are you sure you aren't mixing things up ? This is the gentoo ebuild ?

The ebuild pretty much hardcodes the new path in the config file, so i don't see how this could happen.

Attach your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf please.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-08-08 14:01:42 UTC]

why would i report something that wasnt related to the ebuild ?  anyways, here is some proof that this bug exists

root@vapier 1 ~ # ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.2.3.ebuild clean unpack compile install
<output of package doing its thing>
root@vapier 1 ~ # cd /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.2.3/image/etc/fonts
root@vapier 1 fonts # grep X11R6 *
fonts.conf:     <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
fonts.conf:      <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
fonts.conf:     <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
fonts.conf:     <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir>
fonts.conf.new: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
fonts.conf.new:  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
fonts.conf.new: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
fonts.conf.new: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir>

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-08 14:58:23 UTC]

the X11R6 entries are not relevant, you should check if it points to /usr/share/fonts of course. The lack of that seems to be your initial complaint (or i must misinterpret it).

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-08-08 18:15:26 UTC]

it points to <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> and that's it

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-09 03:05:52 UTC]

Well, that's good isn't it. Now what is your problem exactly, cause i really don't see what you mean then ?

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-08-09 04:52:43 UTC]

does pointing fonts.conf at /usr/share/fonts cause it to recursively descend into subdirectories ?

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-09 05:19:40 UTC]

yes

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2004-08-09 07:19:58 UTC]

then the question is, why does xorg-x11 bother with sedding the /usr/X11R6/ font paths to point to /usr/share/fonts/

[Comment 9 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-09 08:09:42 UTC]

i'm not sure what that has todo with your initial bugreport. Fontconfig paths are fine in your situation afaics. So that closes this or do you still have some real problems ?

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2004-08-09 08:55:54 UTC]

the bug report was about the discrepancy of how fontconfig installs fonts.conf and how xorg-x11 expects it to be

you say just having /usr/share/fonts in fonts.conf is enough, fine

i'll let the X peeps take a look at it so you can stop reading about this bug

[Comment 11 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-09 11:39:17 UTC]

After talking to vapier in IRC it became clear that xorg-x11 touches fonts.conf, this is bad and unneeded.

[Comment 12 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-08-09 15:18:39 UTC]

k I'll take care of this at some point. Didn't realize fc was recursive at the time. Wonder why it bothers listing individual directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts then. This is only an annoyance in etc-update and so forth though, since it'll screw up the md5.

[Comment 13 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-08-21 22:54:41 UTC]

Fixed in 6.7.99.902