One of the problems I've been needing to solve is how to deal with
multiple IPS packages installing fonts, given the X server requirement
to have mkfontdir create a fonts.dir file listing all font files in
a given directory.
In Solaris SVR4 packages, we deal with this by using class action
scripts & postinstall/remove scripts to run mkfontdir in each
directory that the package installs fonts in - this allows splitting
each font directory across multiple packages.
For 2008.05, we dealt with this by not splitting fonts across packages,
delivering one gigantic FSWxorg-fonts package that contained 45mb of
fonts. This is too much for the LiveCD, so we have to split it up.
Without scripting in IPS, the options seem to be:
a) define a font action in IPS
b) create a SMF service that somehow knows where the font dirs are
and runs mkfontdir in them
c) create new subdirectories with fonts in that we can ship the
entire subdir in one package, with a pre-made fonts.dir included
C is the simplest and cleanest option, but introduces a new wrinkle -
how do these font directories get into the X server's font path so the
fonts are used? The solution comes from Fedora, who faced similar
issues and contributed their solution upstream. The libXfont we now
ship has support for "catalogue" directories - directories which have
just symlinks to the actual font directories, so that when you add a
font package, it installs its fonts in a new directory, and adds a
symlink to the catalogue directory.
This is my proposed plan, which I'm working on implementing soon unless
someone has a better suggestion.
- Create /etc/X11/fontpath.d and add 'catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d'
to the default Xorg font path in nv_101.
- Split FSWxorg-fonts into several smaller packages. Each of
these packages will own one or more subdirectories of
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts and ship with a prebuilt fonts.dir for
each subdirectory, and add appropriate links to /etc/X11/fontpath.d.
- For nv_101, the core font directories will remain in the default Xorg
font path, but as part of the Xorg 1.5.1 integration (currently planned
for sometime around nv_104-106, once 2008.11 is out the door), we'll
drop them and just have catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d as the default
Xorg font path.
I'll be doing this work for the fonts shipped from the X11 consolidation.
The G11n teams will have to figure out if they want to use this method to
replace OWfontpath and other methods of adding the per-locale font
directories to the X server font path.
The package split I'm currently looking at to replace FSWxorg-fonts is:
[For those who don't have all the ISO 8859-* variants memorized, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859#The_Parts_of_ISO.2FIEC_8859 ]
FSWxorg-fonts-core: the core set of fonts, including Deja Vu, Liberation,
and the default X bitmap fonts in ISO 8859-1,2,15,16.
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, 6.1M
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, 6.8M
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, 10.2M
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, 2.8M
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc, 4.6M
Total: 30.5M
FSWxorg-fonts-cyrillic: Cyrillic
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, 427k
FSWxorg-fonts-daewoo: Daewoo's Korean/Hangul fonts
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/daewoo, 848k
FSWxorg-fonts-jiskan: "jiskan" Japanese/Kanji fonts
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/jiskan, 624k
FSWxorg-fonts-syriac: Syriac
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/syriac, 6M
FSWxorg-fonts-vera: Bitstream Vera
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/vera, 570k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-3: South European: Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-3, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-3, 210k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-4: North European: Baltics, Greenlandic, and Sami
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-4, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-4, 210k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-9: Turkish
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-9, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-9, 210k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-10: Nordic
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-10, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-10, 210k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-13: Baltic Rim
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-13, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-13, 210k
FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-14: Celtic
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-14, 210k
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-14, 210k
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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