Is fc-cache broken on -current?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Hacker wrote:

> 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.


On deinstallation of a package, the package's registered configurations 
are compared with the versions in the share/examples directory.

If different, then it is removed.

On a package installation, if the configuration does not exist, it will be 
copied into place from the (newly installed) share/examples version.

In the case of fontconfig, the fonts.conf file should not be manually 
edited by the admin as the customizations should be in local.conf.