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Re: Testing for existance of a file.



Hrmm -- I purged all kbd and all console-tools, and I have two entries in
/usr/share/consolefonts:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1264 Mar 30 12:25 8x12alt.psf.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1741 Mar 30 12:25 Cyr_a8x32.psf.gz

one of those is unique to svgatextmode, so I included it (the 8x12alt).

I suppose the other one didn't get purged cause I'm currently using it.

I don't really want to resize STM at the moment - heh - this card is
flaky enough.  Strange, though, that I didn't get any dependency issues.
Perhaps because theres no depends: just recommends:

I looked at a few other things -- would it be possible (well, advisable)
to rename my fonts, then in postintst, do the test, then either rename
or delete my duplicates.

BW re:  Yeah, I have 80x25, but I never use it -- t'is horrible.  I just
try to cut my lines at ~ 80 -- sometimes I get it, sometimes now *shrug*

If you want to look at it, my current .deb is at www.debian.org/~talon

On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:04:43PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> In foo.debian-mentors, you wrote:
> > *SO*
> > 
> > 1)  What I'd like to do is try removing it's depends on
> > kbd and/or kbd-compat (at least for my trial
> > versions) and rebuild until it works (retesting it's
> > deps) -- I'll leave it's conflicts in, but
> > I think it only depended because of the fonts -- which it contains.
> > 
> > 2)  At the same time, I'd like to somehow run some type of
> > test somewhere that checks for the
> > existance of the 3 font-files that exist in svgatextmode and
> > in console-tools-data.  Basically,
> > if the user has console-tools-data installed, to leave them,
> > but if not, to have svgatextmode
> > install it's versions of those fonts.  I dont know how well
> > I explained this. hrmmm
> 
> What happens if a user removes console-tools-data after having installed
> svgatextmode?  Does that break your package?
> 
> Also, I don't think it's possible to have files installed conditionally
> unless you actually *create* them in your postinst script, like
> a "here document".  This doesn't seem to work with fonts well.
> 
> -Mitch
> 
> BTW - Does svgatextmode have a setting for 80 cols?  Your message is
>       oversized.
> 
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