Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [2007-05-24 16:19 -0400]:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> > * Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> [2007-05-24 21:40 +1000]:
> > > I've found this problem on one system (the one where I thought the
> > > upgrade had gone the most cleanly).  font-alias _is_ installed but
> > > most of my pcf.gz files are corrupt (20 bytes long).
> > > 
> > > 'portupgrade -f' on my fonts is fixing this but I'm not exactly sure
> > > why it occurred to start with.
> > 
> > bdftopcf fails if it uses the old library from X11R6. The 20 bytes are
> > the compressed empty output of the failing bdftopcf.
> 
> Sounds like it is being upgraded out of order, we need a full log to
> figure out why.

Isn't this already known and the reason for the advice in
/usr/port/UPDATING

  Unfortunately portupgrade (nor portupgrade-devel) cannot yet handle
  the rigors of the xorg upgrade without a small bit of help:

  # portupgrade -Rf libXft

before you do the portupgrade -a?

Nicolas

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