svn commit: r530516 - in head: . x11-fonts/fontconfig x11-fonts/fontconfig-reference x11-fonts/fontconfig/files

[Tobias C. Berner]

You're of course absolutely right -- let's call this a case of
'copy-an-pasting' without thinking  enough :) -- I'll fix it shortly.

mfg Tobias

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 00:58, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > --- head/UPDATING       Fri Apr  3 18:46:25 2020        (r530515)
> > +++ head/UPDATING       Fri Apr  3 20:02:24 2020        (r530516)
> > @@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ they are unavoidable.
> >  You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
> >  you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
> >
> > +20200403:
> > +  AFFECTS: users of x11-fonts/fontconfig
> > +  AUTHOR: desktop at FreeBSD.org
> > +
> > +  Fontconfig 2.13.1 generated .uuid files in the fonts directory which where
> > +  not properly registered to the packages. To clean them up, please execute the
> > +  following command:
> > +
> > +       find %%LOCALBASE%%/share/fonts -type f -name .uuid -delete
>
> I may be wrong about this (please speak up if I am!), but I suspect
> that "%%LOCALBASE%%" isn't a useful construct to end-users. End-users
> are less likely to know that "%%LOCALBASE%% is substituted in plist
> files to ${LOCALBASE}, which is /usr/local by default" than users
> who've set LOCALBASE to a new location will know that paths in
> UPDATING messages need to be modified for their system.
>
> I think we can make things clearer for users by just using /usr/local,
> and tailoring UPDATING messages to be immediately usable by the
> greatest percentage of users.
>
> # Adam
>
>
> --
> Adam Weinberger
> adamw at adamw.org
> https://www.adamw.org