redhat did apply the opendesktop patch to build the iso8859-1 fonts, but then they forgot to rebuild the fonts-xorg package to pick them up. they have done some magic with how that happens such that you have to build the full xorg-x11 with a special %define set, and then go rpm2cpio stuff and tar that and blah blah blah. i am trying to work through this and i have whined at redhat again. and normally i am against fiddling with rpms from redhat for centos, but i am wondering if this might be ok to fix since it is a build problem. once i figure out the build process i''ll post it and maybe we can put the fixed rpms into the centosplus area?
ok, i''ve figured out how to build the fonts-xorg rpm. it wasn''t too bad. first you have to edit the spec file for xorg-x11 to enable with_fonts. then build it. then there are comments at the top of the fonts-xorg rpm that show how to rpm2cpio the font packages and put them back into 1 big tar file. put that in the SOURCES directory and build the fonts-xorg package. so i now have my fonts back. so, give that can this be rolled into the centosplus area? i realize that the official release 4 is being built now so time may be a bit tight. next i have to figure out why gnome apps still won''t show Lucida and LucidaBright (or whatever names they should be), only LucidaTypewriter. it appears to have something to do with the fontconfig package, but i haven''t figured that out yet. if anyone has clues to pass me...
Would be great to get this package ''out there''.... I''ve held off moving my Desktop to C4 mainly due to this issue. It''s not a drama on a server... it is on a desktop. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:27:31 -0800 (PST), Joe Pruett <joey@clean.q7.com> wrote:> ok, i''ve figured out how to build the fonts-xorg rpm. it wasn''t too bad. > first you have to edit the spec file for xorg-x11 to enable with_fonts. > then build it. then there are comments at the top of the fonts-xorg rpm > that show how to rpm2cpio the font packages and put them back into 1 big > tar file. put that in the SOURCES directory and build the fonts-xorg > package. so i now have my fonts back. > > so, give that can this be rolled into the centosplus area? i realize that > the official release 4 is being built now so time may be a bit tight. > > next i have to figure out why gnome apps still won''t show Lucida and > LucidaBright (or whatever names they should be), only LucidaTypewriter. > it appears to have something to do with the fontconfig package, but i > haven''t figured that out yet. if anyone has clues to pass me... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >