Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.11.1-1

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 5/13/2014 4:38 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2014-05-12 20:45, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 5/9/2014 11:07 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > This is an update to the latest upstream release.  The Windows font
> > > directory has been removed from the default fonts path due to issues
> > > caused by stale caches; a separate package to add it to the path, as
> > > well as keep the cache current automatically, should be available soon.
> >
> > You also removed /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts,
> > /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype,
> > /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype, and
> > /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1.  Was that intentional?
>
> Yes, because it seems that they would also have this issue because
> nothing in the providing packages updates the cache.  (cygport only
> generates fontconfig postinstall scripts for /usr/share/fonts.)

I don't know about the ghostscript fonts, but cygport does generate the 
appropriate fc-cache commands in the postinstall scripts for the 
texlive-collection-* packages that install fonts.  This is done in 
__prep_texlive() in src_postinst.cygpart.

Ken


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