[opensuse] Update to fetchmsttfonts - is it really necesary to download the fonts again
Hi, I noticed an update to fetchmsttfonts. openSUSE-2017-1041 - Recommended update for fetchmsttfonts This update for fetchmsttfonts contains the following fixes: - fetchmsttfonts now uses sf.net automatic mirror selection (boo#1057119) - The cryptographic checksums of the downloaded fonts are now verified (boo#958651) References: 958651 (bugzilla) : add hash validation to fetchmsttfonts.sh 1057119 (bugzilla) : fetchmsttfonts seems to fail It seems it applies to the script. What I wonder is why the script has to actually run on computers that already have the fonts downloaded. It is a very slow process, so why run it again? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))
On 09/18/2017 04:06 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I noticed an update to fetchmsttfonts.
openSUSE-2017-1041 - Recommended update for fetchmsttfonts
This update for fetchmsttfonts contains the following fixes: - fetchmsttfonts now uses sf.net automatic mirror selection (boo#1057119) - The cryptographic checksums of the downloaded fonts are now verified (boo#958651) References: 958651 (bugzilla) : add hash validation to fetchmsttfonts.sh 1057119 (bugzilla) : fetchmsttfonts seems to fail
It seems it applies to the script. What I wonder is why the script has to actually run on computers that already have the fonts downloaded. It is a very slow process, so why run it again?
Just copy the ttf from oldsys /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the same directory on newsys and run # fc-cache to regenerate the font cache. Older apps that do not support fontconfig may need mkfontscale and mkfontdir run You can also put the fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts/truetype if you just want to load them for your user. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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