Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:29:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: URGENT: Need a Redhat 8 RPM of freetype 2.1.7 Message-ID: <20041231002928.GA38257@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:30:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > We're in the process of trying to update the linux_base support from > 7.x (which has security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed) to > 8.0, as a minimal fix that will allow FreeBSD 4.11 to ship with a > working linuxulator. This is working, except RH 8.0 includes an old > version of freetype that does not understand gzipped fonts, and > doesn't recognise some truetype fonts. As a result, font rendering of > linux applications on FreeBSD is extremely poor. >=20 > An update to freetype 2.1.4 or newer (preferably 2.1.7) should fix > these problems, but RedHat did not seem to make available any updates > to the freetype package. >=20 > Is anyone able to generate (or tell me where I can find) an updated > freetype package compatible with redhat 8.0? Thanks to Joseph Gelinas <scirocco@tasam.com>, I now have a 2.1.5 package that seems to work. Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB1J1nWry0BWjoQKURAkvsAKDK95mtTcaVgLNqLxdroXHK3c5Y8wCdGCh2 jzV4FkuRT7emrxq4UbgOiVs= =zTHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--
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