[115782] trunk/dports/graphics/fontconfig

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jan 12 14:23:52 PST 2014


On 2014-1-13 08:18 , Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12, 2014, at 11:34, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Revision: 115782
>>>          https://trac.macports.org/changeset/115782
>>> Author:   jeremyhu at macports.org
>>> Date:     2014-01-10 21:56:18 -0800 (Fri, 10 Jan 2014)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> fontconfig: Fix cache invalidation when font subdirectories exist (maintainer timeout)
>>
>> Speaking of fontconfig cache invalidation, why does the port use -fr
>> when running fc-cache in post-activate?
>>
>> -f     Force  re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, over-
>>        riding the timestamp checking.
>>
>> -r     Erase all existing cache files and rescan.
> 
> The caches are versioned, so it should "just work" without -fr unless there's a bug this is working around.

I can't find any reason for using them in the commit logs. -f has been
there since the fc-cache invocation was first added in r18579, and you
added -r in r43721.

It would be good to remove them if they're not needed, since it does
make the activation take quite a while.

- Josh


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