Re: Can Not Install Font Packages

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Well, I was thinking of /etc/postinstall or /etc/preremove as the location
> for these files anyway...  Frankly, I didn't think of checking the scripts
> themselves - this might work just as well, and eliminates the need for
> extra files.

Heh heh... my laziness comes in handy.

> The only thing is that this constrains the package names for
> X fonts, so if a new one is added, its package name will either have to
> follow the same pattern or be added to the lists in all the other
> packages, whereas with the separate files, we control the names...

I don't think there has been a new font package in over 5 years, or 
possibly longer.  In any case, there will not be a new font package 
added within a major release, only between major releases, so this 
should be a non-issue.  When a major release is made the font packages 
all get replaced, so we could freshen the scripts at that point if need be.

> > > I think for setup to detect when a mount is stale would be a good idea
> > > anyway.  Currently, AFAIK, setup doesn't have a notion of "failing to
> > > install a package" with subsequent reinstall, but if it ever does, this
> > > would be the right way to handle the situation.
> >
> > Cool, although IANACSD (I am not a Cygiwn setup developer), so that is
> > about as far as I am going to go with the idea :)
> >
> > Harold
>
> I am, and I'll look into this at some point (certainly the detection
> part).

Excellent.  Thanks for your input Igor, I appreciate it.

Harold