Re: Fonts reorganization and additions

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 9/11/2015 12:40 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 12:29 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 9/11/2015 7:21 AM, Ola StrÃmfors wrote:
> > > The update gave the following error:
> > >
> > >     Unable to extract
> > >     /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
> > >
> > >     The File is in use or some other error occurred.
> > >
> > >     Please stop all Cygwin processes and select "Retry", or select
> > >     "Continue" to go on anyway (the file will be updated after a reboot).
> > >
> > > and a similar message about the misc fonts.
> > >
> > > - Reboot did not help
> > > - After uninstalling the packages, creating the directory
> > >     /etc/X11/fontpath.d and installing them again,
> >
> > This looks like a packaging error.  Yaakov, shouldn't installing
> > xorg-x11-fonts-* create /etc/X11/fontpath.d if it doesn't exist?  From
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=etc%2FX11%2Ffontpath.d&arch=x86_64
> >
> > it appears that terminus-fonts is the only package that creates this
> > directory.
>
> They do already, and they show up in the search.

I was referring to the fact that for terminus-fonts we see

    2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/
    [...]
    2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/
    2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/
    2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/terminus:unscaled -> 
/usr/share/fonts/terminus

whereas for xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 we see only

    2015-09-10 20:44           0 
etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> 
/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi

and similarly for the other xorg-x11-fonts-* packages.

I interpreted this as meaning that /etc/X11/fontpath.d wouldn't get created, but 
maybe I was wrong.

In any case, it apparently didn't get created for the OP, and I had the same 
experience.  On the other hand, it gets created when I manually unpack the 
tarball, so I don't know what's going on.

Ken

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