linux vs freebsd fc-cache binaries

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 13:23 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > |>Not sure if an updated RPM is available, though.
> > |
> > |
> > | I couldn't find one on the mirror site.  This is annoying..looks like
> > | we'll either have to
> > |
> > | * ship a linux_base with crappy font rendering, add the errata entry
> > | and then deal with all the support mail from people who don't read it.
> > |
> > | * Make the XFree86 and xorg font ports not install gzipped fonts,
> > | until we can update again to a newer linux_base after the release.
> > 
> > * Find someone that can create a RedHat 8 RPM of freetype2-2.1.4 or
> > higher (preferably 2.1.7).  I'm sure one of our users could do this, and
> > it wouldn't hurt to ask.
> > 
> > I mean, RH 8 isn't supported anymore anyway, so it wouldn't be like
> > we're going to be causing ourselves any extra grief.
> 
> OK, that's worth a shot.  BTW, it also misses some of my TrueType
> fonts, which might be because they're not named *.TTF (the number
> missing is the same as the number of *.{FON,001,ttf} files in that
> directory that are picked up by our fc-cache).

Those .FON and .001 fonts might be the fonts that will require
freetype2-2.1.7.  However, 2.1.4 should be sufficient for the majority
of failing fonts.

Joe

> 
> Kris
> 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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