ports/135648: [maintainer] x11-fonts/gentium -- pkg-message out of date
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Tue Jun 16 19:50:13 UTC 2009
>Number: 135648
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: [maintainer] x11-fonts/gentium -- pkg-message out of date
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 16 19:50:10 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthew Seaman
>Release: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Infracaninophile
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 13 17:37:55 BST 2009 root at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAPPY-IDIOT-TALK i386
>Description:
The pkg-message for this port advises users to load the freetype module
from their Xorg.conf, but this is now outdated: recent versions of X
include the required functionality without having to load any extra
modules.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- gentium.diff begins here ---
diff -Nur /usr/ports/x11-fonts/gentium/files/pkg-message.in gentium/files/pkg-message.in
--- /usr/ports/x11-fonts/gentium/files/pkg-message.in 2008-04-19 18:55:06.000000000 +0100
+++ gentium/files/pkg-message.in 2009-06-16 20:43:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
IMPORTANT - READ CAREFULLY: Please read the COPYRIGHT included with these fonts
before using. The copyright can be found at
- %%LOCALBASE%%/%%FONTSDIR%%/OFL
+ %%PREFIX%%/%%FONTSDIR%%/OFL
-To use these fonts, follow the instructions below.
+To use these fonts, add the following line to the "Files" section of
+xorg.conf:
-Make sure that the freetype module is loaded. If it is not, add the following
-line to the "Modules" section of xorg.conf:
+ FontPath "%%PREFIX%%/%%FONTSDIR%%/"
+
+Users of older versions of X may additionally have to make sure that
+the freetype module is loaded. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error
+messages. If freetype is required, add the following line to the
+"Modules" section of xorg.conf:
Load "freetype"
-Add the following line to the "Files" section of xorg.conf:
- FontPath "%%LOCALBASE%%/%%FONTSDIR%%/"
--- gentium.diff ends here ---
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