Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:23:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd fc-cache binaries Message-ID: <20041230212357.GA28427@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41D46FC0.5080603@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041230195320.GA91304@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D46431.4000808@FreeBSD.org> <20041230203049.GA11245@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D46A22.5030906@FreeBSD.org> <20041230211112.GA20159@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D46FC0.5080603@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> |>Not sure if an updated RPM is available, though.
> |
> |
> | I couldn't find one on the mirror site. This is annoying..looks like
> | we'll either have to
> |
> | * ship a linux_base with crappy font rendering, add the errata entry
> | and then deal with all the support mail from people who don't read it.
> |
> | * Make the XFree86 and xorg font ports not install gzipped fonts,
> | until we can update again to a newer linux_base after the release.
>=20
> * Find someone that can create a RedHat 8 RPM of freetype2-2.1.4 or
> higher (preferably 2.1.7). I'm sure one of our users could do this, and
> it wouldn't hurt to ask.
>=20
> I mean, RH 8 isn't supported anymore anyway, so it wouldn't be like
> we're going to be causing ourselves any extra grief.
OK, that's worth a shot. BTW, it also misses some of my TrueType
fonts, which might be because they're not named *.TTF (the number
missing is the same as the number of *.{FON,001,ttf} files in that
directory that are picked up by our fc-cache).
Kris
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