Dan Horák wrote:
Mike A. Harris píše v Po 04. 09. 2006 v 16:47 -0400:
> Dan Horák wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with rebuilding the TinyERP package for Fedora Extras.
>> It needs to start a X server during the build process, so there is a
>> "BuildRequires" dependency on xorg-x11-server-xvfb. The X server needs
a
>> default font "fixed", so there is a "BuildRequires"
dependency on
>> xorg-x11-fonts-base. When you look into the fonts-base package than the
>> font "fixed" is defined in the /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
>> file. This was sufficient at least until the last build of this package
>> on July 24. In current Fedora Devel there is a problem because the font
>> "fixed" cannot be found. So what happened to the font
"fixed"?
>>
>> You can find the build logs at
>>
http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/16094-ti...
> Each of the X server subpackages that requires fixed/cursor fonts in
> order to work properly at runtime, should be doing:
>
> Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-base
>
Yes, this is for runtime, but I need it during the build. Even now all
servers should depend on fonts-base, so ot should sufficient to make a
dependency only on the server.
As long as the X server you need (at build or runtime) specifies
"Requires: <the fonts it needs>", and you specify a dep on the
particular X server, then there should be no problem, as your
package will drag in the X server, which will drag in the fonts.
If you require Xvfb, you should be using:
BuildRequires: Xvfb
(not xorg-x11-server-Xvfb)
That will make your package X implementation agnostic.
> That way at X server installation time, there is a runtime
dependency
> on the fonts that are required to operate properly. I could have
> sworn such a dependency was present before, however I could be
> mistaken, or it's possible the dependency was removed to allow OLPC
> to be able to install a minimal installation or somesuch.
>
> I haven't tracked recent Fedora X packaging though.. it's possible
> a glitch might have creeped in perhaps. Check and make sure that
> The actual fonts are installed, and that there is a valid fonts.dir
> in the directory.
>
I have compared the fonts-base packages from FC5 and devel and they
differ only in content of the font files (*.pcf.gz). So something must
be changed in the xorg-x11-server package and I have found a note in the
changelog for version 1.1.1-10.fc6 (revision 1.130 from July 26):
"- Fix default font path to match the config file we used to generate"
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11-server/devel/xorg-x11-...
Could someone explain the consequences of this change to me?
I'd suggest to check the changelog to see who made the change, and
drop them an email.
Hope this helps.
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