Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/54647: Updated gsfonts 6.0 disables printing in Ted Message-ID: <200307240510.h6O5AGvl043149@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/54647; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: maho@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/54647: Updated gsfonts 6.0 disables printing in Ted Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:00:43 +0100 (BST) --- Jonathan <j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:47 am, you wrote: ... > > So something is wrong with type1inst (which IIRC) is a PERL script or > something is wrong with the ghostscript-gnu port? > Both ! The gnu-gsfonts-6.0 doesn't include a Fontmap file: for some obscure reason they decided to make it part of gnu-ghostcript instead. (gsfonts-5.1 included the Fontmap file but not the X stuff). type1inst is an old utility and it's I'm not sure if it's maintained anymore. Perhaps you can try this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=184848 > This would never be noticed on the ports install because the port invokes > type1inst with no logging of errors and it prints out no errors, while it is > running. > There is a reason for that: logs or error reports are only for the port maintainer, the end user wouldn't like to find them in their pkg-plist, just like you wouldn't like to find bento logs on in a pkg_add () tarball. cheers, Pedro. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
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