Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 06:26:21 +0200 From: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org>, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r530516 - in head: . x11-fonts/fontconfig x11-fonts/fontconfig-reference x11-fonts/fontconfig/files Message-ID: <CAOshKteUBm6_AWn5hT79G68J3Qt4r1KM6B26p8q05ERr6YV5Jg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwcghTXqX8N5=5JO56m9dPD=mVXxi4HU_WJFk84i9qLtK8w@mail.gmail.com> References: <202004032002.033K2O2D024675@repo.freebsd.org> <CAP7rwcghTXqX8N5=5JO56m9dPD=mVXxi4HU_WJFk84i9qLtK8w@mail.gmail.com>
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You're of course absolutely right -- let's call this a case of
'copy-an-pasting' without thinking enough :) -- I'll fix it shortly.
mfg Tobias
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 00:58, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > --- head/UPDATING Fri Apr 3 18:46:25 2020 (r530515)
> > +++ head/UPDATING Fri Apr 3 20:02:24 2020 (r530516)
> > @@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ they are unavoidable.
> > You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
> > you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
> >
> > +20200403:
> > + AFFECTS: users of x11-fonts/fontconfig
> > + AUTHOR: desktop@FreeBSD.org
> > +
> > + Fontconfig 2.13.1 generated .uuid files in the fonts directory which where
> > + not properly registered to the packages. To clean them up, please execute the
> > + following command:
> > +
> > + find %%LOCALBASE%%/share/fonts -type f -name .uuid -delete
>
> I may be wrong about this (please speak up if I am!), but I suspect
> that "%%LOCALBASE%%" isn't a useful construct to end-users. End-users
> are less likely to know that "%%LOCALBASE%% is substituted in plist
> files to ${LOCALBASE}, which is /usr/local by default" than users
> who've set LOCALBASE to a new location will know that paths in
> UPDATING messages need to be modified for their system.
>
> I think we can make things clearer for users by just using /usr/local,
> and tailoring UPDATING messages to be immediately usable by the
> greatest percentage of users.
>
> # Adam
>
>
> --
> Adam Weinberger
> adamw@adamw.org
> https://www.adamw.org
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