Can Not Install Font Packages
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Oct 20 21:23:00 GMT 2003
Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Well, I was thinking of /etc/postinstall or /etc/preremove as the location
> for these files anyway... Frankly, I didn't think of checking the scripts
> themselves - this might work just as well, and eliminates the need for
> extra files.
Heh heh... my laziness comes in handy.
> The only thing is that this constrains the package names for
> X fonts, so if a new one is added, its package name will either have to
> follow the same pattern or be added to the lists in all the other
> packages, whereas with the separate files, we control the names...
I don't think there has been a new font package in over 5 years, or
possibly longer. In any case, there will not be a new font package
added within a major release, only between major releases, so this
should be a non-issue. When a major release is made the font packages
all get replaced, so we could freshen the scripts at that point if need be.
>>>I think for setup to detect when a mount is stale would be a good idea
>>>anyway. Currently, AFAIK, setup doesn't have a notion of "failing to
>>>install a package" with subsequent reinstall, but if it ever does, this
>>>would be the right way to handle the situation.
>>
>>Cool, although IANACSD (I am not a Cygiwn setup developer), so that is
>>about as far as I am going to go with the idea :)
>>
>>Harold
>
> I am, and I'll look into this at some point (certainly the detection
> part).
Excellent. Thanks for your input Igor, I appreciate it.
Harold
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