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mglauche
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 Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:55 am Post subject: Bitstream vera fonts released .. any ebuilds yet ? ;) |
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the license says "no distribution yet", but that basicly applies to gentoo as each user downloads the .tgz from him/herself ? So ebuild should be legally possible ?
http://gnome.org/fonts/ |
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green sun
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| Feel like posting some screen shots of the fonts in action? Why is this exciting? Are they great fonts or something? |
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foser
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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no distribution yet, mainly because they're not yet done.
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Koon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| green sun wrote: | | Feel like posting some screen shots of the fonts in action? Why is this exciting? Are they great fonts or something? |
There you can see the monospaced Vera in action : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=213033#213033
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TGL
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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I've written an ebuild. Comments are welcome before it goes to bugzilla.
x11-misc/bitstream-vera/bitstream-vera-1.0.ebuild:
| Code: | # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
DESCRIPTION="Bitstream Vera TTF fonts"
SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://gnome.org/fonts/"
# The license seems restrictive, are we allowed to package this?
# We need at least to create a "Bitstream" license file from included COPYRIGHT.TXT
# LICENSE="Bitstream"
SLOT="0"
# Only tested on my x86, but I'm pretty sure it works anywhere:
KEYWORDS="x86 sparc ppc alpha"
DEPEND="virtual/x11"
src_install() {
insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
doins local.conf
dohtml Bitstream_Vera_Fonts_README.html
dodoc COPYRIGHT.TXT
insinto /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera
insopts -m0644
doins *.ttf
cd ${D}/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera
mkfontscale
# Maybe "ttmkfdir" from x11-misc/ttmkfdir would be better?
# I don't really know the difference...
}
pkg_postinst() {
einfo "- To use this fonts with fontconfig-2.x apps, copy"
einfo " /usr/share/doc/${PF}/local.conf into /etc/fonts/,"
einfo " and run fc-cache."
einfo "- To use it with other XFree apps, add this to your XF86Config:"
einfo " FontPath \"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera/\""
}
pkg_postrm() {
einfo "Don't forget to clean up your fonts config in"
einfo "/etc/fonts/ and /etc/X11/XF86Config"
}
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The fontconfig configuration is to be done by hand, because people may already have a "/etc/fonts/local.conf" file of their own. Maybe a cleanest solution would be to make some additions to the standard "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" file from fontconfig package.
And something else: does anybody know the difference between "mkfontscale" and "ttmkfdir" for TTF fonts? They don't produce the same "fonts.scale" file, but I don't know which one is the best. |
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jyasskin
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Two things:
I think the license prohibits the gentoo mirrors from caching the fonts, so someone needs to figure out how to prevent that.
Second, why are fonts scattered between x11-misc and app-text? Wouldn't it make more sense to put them all in, say, x11-fonts (or app-fonts)?
--edit--
Also, this is just a beta; it shouldn't be version 1.0 (even though that's the file name). |
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TGL
Bodhisattva
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| jyasskin wrote: | | I think the license prohibits the gentoo mirrors from caching the fonts, so someone needs to figure out how to prevent that. |
Yes, probably. I think that if we remove the SRC_URI, check if the archive is in distfiles, and display a "Please, download blablabla..." if it's not there, then it will be okay. I'll make this changes asap.
| jyasskin wrote: | | Second, why are fonts scattered between x11-misc and app-text? Wouldn't it make more sense to put them all in, say, x11-fonts (or app-fonts)? |
You're also right on this point... And it would really be easiest for the user to know what are the available fonts he can install. But I don't know how easy are this kind of moves for portage tree mainteners. I will open a bug to ask about that.
Thanks for your comments. |
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TGL
Bodhisattva
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a new one that should prevent fonts archive mirroring, and thus require manual download.
| Code: | # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
DESCRIPTION="Bitstream Vera TTF fonts"
#SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://gnome.org/fonts/"
# We have to create a "Bitstream" license file from included COPYRIGHT.TXT
# LICENSE="Bitstream"
SLOT="0"
# Only tested on my x86, but I'm pretty sure this works anywhere:
KEYWORDS="x86 sparc ppc alpha"
DEPEND="virtual/x11"
pkg_setup() {
if [ ! -f ${DISTDIR}/${P}.tar.gz ] ; then
eerror "Due to license restrictions, this fonts can't be redistributed."
eerror "Please download the archive from http://gnome.org/fonts/"
eerror "and place it in ${DISTDIR}/"
eerror "The file should be named ${P}.tar.gz"
die "Fonts archive not found."
fi
}
src_unpack() {
unpack ${P}.tar.gz
}
src_install() {
insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
doins local.conf
dohtml Bitstream_Vera_Fonts_README.html
dodoc COPYRIGHT.TXT
insinto /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera
insopts -m0644
doins *.ttf
cd ${D}/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera
mkfontscale
# Maybe "ttmkfdir" from x11-misc/ttmkfdir would be better?
# I don't really know the difference...
}
pkg_postinst() {
einfo "- To use this fonts with fontconfig-2.x apps, copy"
einfo " /usr/share/doc/${PF}/local.conf into /etc/fonts/"
einfo "- To use it with other XFree apps, add this to your XF86Config:"
einfo " FontPath \"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vera/\""
}
pkg_postrm() {
einfo "Don't forget to clean up your fonts config in"
einfo "/etc/fonts/ and /etc/X11/XF86Config"
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I've also proposed the creation of a "*-fonts" category on bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16151 |
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