Re: Is fc-cache broken on -current?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:

> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:05:44PM -0700, walt wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone confirm this error with the latest fontconfig
> > > from pkgsrc?
> > >
> > > # fc-cache -v /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> > > /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
> > > /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: failed to write cache
> > > fc-cache: failed
> >
> > Works fine here. Can you delete all old font caches just to make sure
> > that it doesn't try to reuse those?
>
>
> Bah.  The problem was the old fontconfig config-files in
> /usr/pkg/etc.  I noticed that the update announced that
> there were existing config files so they were not touched.
>
> The problem was that those config files should have been
> replaced during the update!

Ordinarily NOT by the 'update'.

But by the 'updater',

. .. with care to preserve whatever customization is still appropriate, if any.

That's why the general rule is to produce a message and NOT over-write.

Easy to get the new set that had been skipped spit-out again.

Much harder to recover lost ones automatically, and silently, over-written.

Bill