Re: Testing has broken my fonts today
On 18 Sep 2002 13:51:56 -0400
"Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> You should not need to do both.
>
> Defoma font management is a _replacement_ for the part of the
> update-ms-fonts script that was commented out; that's why it was
> commented out.
Right, I understand that this is what is supposed to happen.
> The "Right Way" is to not uncomment stuff from the update-ms-fonts
> script, but rather to allow Defoma to manage the fonts correctly. If,
> for some reason, this doesn't work automatically then you need to
> report a bug on this.
There already is a bug on this (I think).
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes
According to the bugreport:
"Defoma does not create symlinks as the previous msttcorefonts package
did." and
"Changing the /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts script to the previous behavior
by uncommenting the creation of the symlinks and commenting the deletion
of the symlinks returns the system to a working state regarding these
fonts."
Simply installing Defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf.d (also adding relevent
FontPath entries in XF86Config-4) did not get things working. Only
after I proceeded to modify the script did things work again. I guess
it's just a bug. I do appreciate that you've pointed out the *Right
Way*, as it's clarified my undestanding of the situation. I'm not
exactly a guru :)
> Strange that you didn't have defoma installed, though, because the
> msttcorefonts package Depends on defoma... how could you install
> msttcorefonts without it?
I had an older version of msttcorefonts installed. I gather that the
defoma dependency is a new one? Though perhaps I'm wrong about this.
At any rate, defoma was not installed on my system. I ended up doing an
apt-get remove --purge msttcorefonts, and then apt-get install
msttcorefonts to make sure that nothing was left over from the old
installation. I have no idea if this was necessary or not, but I didn't
think this could hurt. I think defoma was installed at the time of my
fresh installation as of this morning. From other posts, it appears
that msttcorefonts doesn't currently depend upon x-ttcidfont-conf.d; is
this indeed the case?
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