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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:29:28 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: URGENT: Need a Redhat 8 RPM of freetype 2.1.7
Message-ID:  <20041231002928.GA38257@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:30:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> We're in the process of trying to update the linux_base support from
> 7.x (which has security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed) to
> 8.0, as a minimal fix that will allow FreeBSD 4.11 to ship with a
> working linuxulator.  This is working, except RH 8.0 includes an old
> version of freetype that does not understand gzipped fonts, and
> doesn't recognise some truetype fonts.  As a result, font rendering of
> linux applications on FreeBSD is extremely poor.
>=20
> An update to freetype 2.1.4 or newer (preferably 2.1.7) should fix
> these problems, but RedHat did not seem to make available any updates
> to the freetype package.
>=20
> Is anyone able to generate (or tell me where I can find) an updated
> freetype package compatible with redhat 8.0?

Thanks to Joseph Gelinas <scirocco@tasam.com>, I now have a 2.1.5
package that seems to work.

Kris



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