file triggers for updating fontconfig cache in rawhide

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 11 14:38:24 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:09:22PM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 07:35:03PM +0200, nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net wrote:
> >> > I just discovered that trying to install the Noto font family in
> >> > Software will reliably kill a (relatively powerful) system. This will
> >> > fix that, right?
> >> I fear that's the cause, not the solution. The previous solution was
> >> very careful to only call fontconfig once per changed font directory.
> >> Unless the triggers are filtered they will launch once per font
> >> *file*. So a killer for packages with many font files (like noto)
> > The initial message here (see subject line, actually) says that the
> > change was made in Rawhide. My system was F23, so it's gotta be the old
> > thing not the new one, right?
> All of font packages needs to be rebuilt to complete the transition
> for this and doing it now may be a bit late? otherwise I'm willing to
> work on that though.

Well, I'm still unclear on all of the above. Will doing this in F23:

a) fix the installing-Noto-kills-your-system issue
b) make that issue worse
c) no change?
d) something else!

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
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