cvs commit: ports/x11-servers/xorg-fontserver Makefile pkg-plist patch-config.cpp xfs.sh

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Sunday 23 of January 2005 21:02, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:50:40PM +0000, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > lesi        2005-01-23 19:50:40 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     x11-servers/xorg-fontserver Makefile pkg-plist
> >   Added files:
> >     x11-servers/xorg-fontserver/files patch-Imakefile
> >                                       patch-config.cpp xfs.sh
> >   Log:
> >   Add rcNG startup script. [1]
> >
> >   Font cache is not build by default, which makes related lines in
> >   default configure file wrong, which in turn causes xfs to error out
> >   on startup with default file. Tweak generation of said file in a way
> >   that would make proper configuration depending on existance of font
> >   caching code, so that this patch can be sent upstream. [2]
>
> I did not studied the change, but someone should ping me or -doc if we
> have to update the font section in the Handbook.
> Thanks
>
> Marc

It doesn't appear so. Font server is actually not mentioned there, so nothing 
is outdated by this change. Not many people are probably running a font 
server, but for those who do, these changes might help. I expect majority of 
users just put font paths in XFree86/X.Org server configuration file or just 
rely on Xft to pick up fonts; both of these are explained in Handbook and are 
not directly related to particular way of how X server gets fonts.
If there's a need for font server to be documented there, perhaps a pointer to 
xfs(1) would be enough. I'm afraid I'm no good at writing documentation 
though... Something like the following might be usefule at the end of 'Type1 
Fonts' section:

In case you are running a font server (x11-servers/xorg-fontserver or 
x11-servers/XFree86-4-FontServer), add the path to font files in its 
configuration file (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config by default) to 'catalogue' 
keyword. See also xfs(1) for more details.

Actually while looking at 'Type1 Fonts' section, it looks rather more generic, 
not only Type1 specific. It could be used as a reference in fonts ports 
instead of existing pkg-messages, which would come in handy with PR 
ports/73009.

Dejan