[arch-dev-public] fontconfig 2.10.1 will require user interaction

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Thu Sep 6 12:05:45 EDT 2012


Yes, I'm top posting from my phone. No, there isn't much point in worrying
about -Sy if the next thing you do is -Su. At some point we have to accept
that no matter what we post, someone will complain that it was misleading,
wrong, or otherwise kicked their cat.
On Sep 6, 2012 11:58 AM, "Daniel Wallace" <danielwallace at gtmanfred.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:25:06AM +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> > Am Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:02:27 +0200
> > schrieb Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > I would simply recommend removing the offending files using rm, we
> > > certainly know the list.
> > >
> > > Rémy.
> > >
> >
> > News draft:
> >
> > fontconfig 2.10.1 update - manual intervention required
> >
> > Fontconfig 2.10.1 update overwrites symlinks created by
> > the former package version. These symlinks need to be removed before
> > any further update:
> >
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf
> >   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
> >   pacman -Syu
> >
> > Main systemwide configuration should be done by symlinks
> > (especially for autohinting, sub-pixel and lcdfilter):
> >
> >   cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
> >   ln -s ../conf.avail/XX-foo.conf
> >
> > Check also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration and
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts.
> >
> >
> > I'd like to move it soon. It seems to work pretty solid. I only had to
> > fix the dpi settings on my nvidia twinview desktop where small fonts
> > suddenly were displayed a lot smaller and somehow ugly.
> >
> > -Andy
>
>
> can the news article bechanged to say -Syu instead of now where it says
> -Sy fontconfig which we have always said was frowned upon if I remember
> correctly.
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=802661#p802661
> --
> Daniel Wallace
> Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> Georgia Institute of Technology
>


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