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

[Heiko Baums]

Am Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:25:06 +0200
schrieb Andreas Radke <andyrtr at archlinux.org>:

> 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

Wouldn't it be possible and make sense to remove those in the
pre_install() or pre_upgrade() functions of the new packages?

Heiko