Q: Trying to package msttcore fonts.

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 10 February 2014 17:04, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> The msttcore fonts package available  at [1] is a widely used add-on
> package for Fedora/rpmfusion. I'm trying to make an official rpmfusion
> package (using lpf) to make it possible to install this without
> resorting to "out of Fedora" guides etc.
>
> It's just that packaging fonts is real hard, at least for me. I have
> made a first attempt available in [3] and [4]. If anyone has time, it
> would be real nice to get some input... some questions:
>
> - All fonts has as of now a .conf file, most of which are  just
> placeholders. What should I do? Should there be alias or similar stuff
> defined for these fonts? Or should I just drop the .conf file?
>

I think alias is not required.
It will be good if you can at least update confs file with as per
basic-font-template /usr/share/fontconfig/templates/basic-font-template.conf


>
> - The upstream file packages a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. What
> should I do with this? Drop it? Put into a sub-package? Leave as-is?
>
> - The upstream spec [2] does a lot of stuff in %post:  (mkfontscale,
> mkfontdir...). How should I  cope with this?
>

In fedora, fontpkg macro does all these things, so just ignore it.


>
> - Although not strictly about fonts, since this gives me the creeps:
> are the Obsoletes/Provides OK?
>

If this is first time you are packing it. Obsoletes/Provides not required.


Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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