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Date:      Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:35:31 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: [ports-i386@FreeBSD.org: gtk-2.8.11 failed on i386 6]
Message-ID:  <20060202193531.GA98995@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <43E25CA1.3000200@marcuscom.com>
References:  <20060202161851.GA29539@xor.obsecurity.org> <200602021744.01452.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <1138901747.8738.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200602021859.27460.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <43E25CA1.3000200@marcuscom.com>

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:25:21PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:43 +0100, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> >>> [fontconfig maintainers cced]
> >>>
> >>> On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:18, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>>> This failure is caused by the following files left in the directory
> >>>> after xorg-font-encodings has been removed:
> >>>>
> >>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17 Feb  1 19:53
> >>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/fonts.cache-1 -rw-r--r--  1 root=
=20
> >>>> wheel 0 Feb  1 19:53
> >>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1
> >>>>
> >>>> These are then removed by fontconfig, but nothing cleans up the
> >>>> directories.  What should be doing that?
> >>> Interesting question.  fontencodings don't create fonts.cache-1, but =
it
> >>> will probably be easier and less messy if they remove them so they can
> >>> also remove directories. Can it be assumed that fontconfig is present=
 at
> >>> the time fontencodings are uninstalled?
> >> Not necessarily.  fontconfig is only a build dependency of
> >> xorg-font-encodings.  Therefore, you could remove fontconfig, and keep
> >> encodings around.=20
> >=20
> > Oh. The thing is that it's easy to check if encodings/large/fonts.cache=
-1 is=20
> > empty and remove it in that case. On the other hand encodings/fonts.cac=
he-1=20
> > contains the line pointing to "large" subdir so I was thinking of first=
=20
> > removing encodings/large/fonts.cache-1 if it is empty, then encodings/l=
arge=20
> > directory, then running fc-cache on encodings and remove=20
> > encodings/fonts.cache-1 if it's empty. If fc-config is not present some=
=20
> > parsing will be necessary...
> > Is there a way fc-cache could ignore encodings subdirectory?
> >=20
> >> The strange thing is that fontconfig removes all=20
> >> fonts.cache-1 files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts upon deinstallation.
> >=20
> > Perhaps generating and removing cache files should be made responsibili=
ty of=20
> > fonts ports? IIRC quite some of them handle it already. That could also=
 avoid=20
> > running fc-cache with default settings thus avoiding fonts.cache-1 file=
s=20
> > under encodings.
>=20
> This is doable.  I could remove the cache generation and cleaning code
> from fontconfig once all font ports have been updated to run fc-cache
> themselves.  This would require all font ports to depend on fontconfig,
> though.

Wouldn't it be less work to just make fontconfig @dirrmtry the
directories it removes cache files from?  That way you also don't have
to worry about fontcache never operating on non-port font directories
the user may have created.

Kris

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