New subject: Packaging/ScriptletSnippets, fonts section: no "|| :" at the end of the fc-cache call?

29 Aug 2007


      Hi all,
the Fonts section on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets
contains this:
...
Use this when your package installs new fonts.
{{{
%post
if [ -x %{_bindir}/fc-cache ]; then
  %{_bindir}/fc-cache %{_datadir}/fonts
fi
%postun
if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
  if [ -x %{_bindir}/fc-cache ]; then
    %{_bindir}/fc-cache %{_datadir}/fonts
  fi
fi
}}}
Is there a specific reason why there is no "|| :" at the end of
"%{_bindir}/fc-cache %{_datadir}/fonts"? I think there should be one, as
this happened to me during a F-7 -> rawhide update (that's still in
progress while I'm writing this mail, so more errors might show up):
...
Updating  : bitstream-vera-fonts         ################### [ 383/1850] 
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript: failed to write cache
error: %post(bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-8.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
[...]
...
Updating  : fontconfig                   ################### [ 416/1850] 
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript: failed to write cache
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
error: %post(fontconfig-2.4.2-5.fc8.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 3
[...]
...
Updating  : dejavu-lgc-fonts             ################### [ 548/1850] 
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript: failed to write cache
error: %post(dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.19-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
  Updating  : liberation-fonts             ################### [ 549/1850] 
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript: failed to write cache
error: %post(liberation-fonts-0.2-1.fc8.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
CU
knurd