default font "fixed" in xorg 7.1

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Dan Dvorák wrote:
>>> I have compared the fonts-base packages from FC5 and devel and they
>>> differ only in content of the font files (*.pcf.gz). So something must
>>> be changed in the xorg-x11-server package and I have found a note in the
>>> changelog for version 1.1.1-10.fc6 (revision 1.130 from July 26):
>>> "- Fix default font path to match the config file we used to generate"
>>> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11-server/devel/xorg-x11-server.spec?rev=1.165&view=log
>>>
>>> Could someone explain the consequences of this change to me?
>> I recently updated the fonts packages to fix a cosmetic issue when uninstalling:
>>
>>    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197208
>>
>> The change was to change lines of the form
>>
>>    if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
>>
>> to
>>
>>    if [ "$1" = "0" -a -d %{_x11fontdir}/misc ]; then
>>
>> in the %postun sections, so the script is only run when the font directory in 
>> question exists.  The change looks good to me, but maybe I'm missing 
>> something.  It definitely sounds related to the problem you're seeing.
> 
> But doesn't the situation without the %{_x11fontdir}/misc directory
> mean, that there was not any fonts.dir (or any other) file created in
> this directory normally during the postinstall script? That the
> uninstall process will remove all files (*.pcf.gz and fonts.alias) and
> also the misc directory? For example when postinstall script failed?

The change above only affects the uninstall case where we're really 
uninstalling the package (as opposed to uninstalling as part of an upgrade). 
The script in the if-case is run after uninstalling to update the fonts.dir. 
The change makes sure that we don't run mkfontdir if the uninstall actually 
removed that directory.  Some font packages share a font directory (such as 
the misc directory) so uninstalling a font package doesn't necessarily remove 
the directory, in which case we need to regenerate fonts.dir.

Kristian