default font "fixed" in xorg 7.1

[Dan Horák]

Mike A. Harris píše v Po 04. 09. 2006 v 16:47 -0400:
> Dan Horák wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a problem with rebuilding the TinyERP package for Fedora Extras.
> > It needs to start a X server during the build process, so there is a
> > "BuildRequires" dependency on xorg-x11-server-xvfb. The X server needs a
> > default font "fixed", so there is a "BuildRequires" dependency on
> > xorg-x11-fonts-base. When you look into the fonts-base package than the
> > font "fixed" is defined in the /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
> > file. This was sufficient at least until the last build of this package
> > on July 24. In current Fedora Devel there is a problem because the font
> > "fixed" cannot be found. So what happened to the font "fixed"?
> > 
> > You can find the build logs at
> > http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/16094-tinyerp-3.3.0-3.fc6/
> 
> Each of the X server subpackages that requires fixed/cursor fonts in
> order to work properly at runtime, should be doing:
> 
> Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-base
> 

Yes, this is for runtime, but I need it during the build. Even now all
servers should depend on fonts-base, so ot should sufficient to make a
dependency only on the server.

> That way at X server installation time, there is a runtime dependency
> on the fonts that are required to operate properly.  I could have
> sworn such a dependency was present before, however I could be
> mistaken, or it's possible the dependency was removed to allow OLPC
> to be able to install a minimal installation or somesuch.
> 
> I haven't tracked recent Fedora X packaging though..  it's possible
> a glitch might have creeped in perhaps.  Check and make sure that
> The actual fonts are installed, and that there is a valid fonts.dir
> in the directory.
> 

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?


		Thanks,
			Dan