Bug#478704: texlive-xetex: 478704: fontconfig instead
On Sa, 05 Dez 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
> > The discussion on the bug report shows that it goes down 100 levels
> > of dirs including symlinks.
>
> Cool. That should be enough levels too.
Definitely ;-)
> fontconfig is already trigger-enabled, but it doesn't know about the
> non-standard path TeXLive uses for fonts.
Ahhhh I didn't get that one ... so only in case I put the fonts
somewhere else but under /u/s/f/... I would need some action.
> > A. I call fc-cache in every font shipping package
> > B. I do NOT call fc-cache ...
>
> You should do B....
Got that now.
> I guess moving all the fonts to the standard /u/s/f/{t,o}/ directory is
> out of the question?
Yes. Many of the fonts are already in the 2007 packages under
/u/s/texmf-texlive/fonts/ as files. We need them *there* (as links or
files) because of mktexlsr is searching only there. So moving the
actual fonts there would mean converting the font files under
/u/s/texmf-texlive/fonts/... into links, and you know what that means
wrt preinst/postinst scripts, PITA.
Thinking about the way triggers work I guess I have to actually
*link* each font file to its respective place in under /u/s/fonts/...
Why? Becasue if we only link
/u/s/fonts/type1/texlive -> /u/s/texmf-texlvie/fonts/type1
in texlive-common, then fc-cache will be triggered when texlive-common
is installed/upgraded, but NOT if any other package drops files into
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1.
Bummer.
So simply linking the top level dirs does not help ... dpkg only
sees that I drop file sinto /usr/share/texmf-texlive/... and not
into /usr/share/fonts/..., so it will never execute the trigger.
I guess I have to implement the "Link every .otf and pfb file"
feature in our meta scripts. (hmmm, maybe that is as simple
as adding two lines to our tpm2deb.cfg file ... I have to try.)
Best wishes
Norbert
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