[Bug 496806] New: previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update

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Summary: previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496806

Summary: previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after
                    yum update
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 10
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: cjkuni-fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---

Description of problem:

previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

F10

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm on f10
2. system update
3. zysong disappeared.

Actual results:

[root@localhost fonts]# rpm -ivh
/home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm
warning: /home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm: Header
V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
 /usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch
 fonts-chinese >= 3.02-12.el5 is needed by
fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch
 ttmkfdir >= 3.0.6 is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch

Expected results:

Additional info:

[Bug 496806] previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update

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Nicolas Mailhot  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |CANTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Nicolas Mailhot   2009-04-27 13:52:08 EDT ---
This is not a problem in Fedora, this is a problem in the third-party font
package. It needs to be updated to respect the Fedora packaging conventions
(for example we've asked for years not to depend explicitly on ttmkfdir)