On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: > while trying to figure out why the heck I sometimes have a problem with > konsole on some machines and not on other machines I found out the following > issue: xfonts-* packages have a call for > > update-fonts-dir update-fonts-alias > > in their postinst/postrm > > so those probably need to be added to the xfonts-konsole package too in their > respective postinst/postrm. Further, xfonts-konsole packages: > > > /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x8.pcf.gz > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x16.pcf.gz > > which means that 9x15.pcf.gz is missing in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/. > > Also the question is why they get installed in /usr/share/fonts instead of > /usr/share/fonts/misc. > > Chris, Daniel, do you know anything about that ? I would very much like to > bring this into a usable state so people don't run into the same problems > over and over again. A postinst/postrm scheme for processing the update-fonts > commands can be found in the respective xfree86 packages, so it is kind of > easy to add that to kdebase in CVS for KDE_3_1_BRANCH and HEAD. I could believe that, yeah. Looks like: * They need to go in /usr/share/fonts/misc, or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. * postinst/postrm *DEFINITELY* needs to call update-fonts-*! -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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