[Fontconfig] Status about fontconfig CVS regarding cache handling

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 09:01 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:28 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 13:39 -0500, Patrick Lam a écrit :
> > > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > > But old fonts.cache-2 file in the file system (not
> > > > in /var/cache/fontconfig) is not removed when running fc-cache and
> > > > running fc-cache several times still update cache
> > > > in /var/cache/fontconfig.
> > > 
> > > I'm not quite sure what the correct solution is in this case.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Hmm, I thought the problem would be fixed by patch from Takashi
> > preferring /var/cache/fontconfig files instead of the one in directory
> > but it still isn't. 
> > 
> > Running fc-cache several times still generate recreate cache
> > in /var/cache/fontconfig.
> > 
> > I guess there is still some side effect somewhere..
> 
> Could the problem be that the fonts.cache-2 file in the font dir
> is mistaken for a font ? 

No, I've added some debug code and fonts.cache-2 is not detected as a
font file.

Moreover, if it was, cache would be generated only one time and it
wouldn't be detected as dirty each time fc-cache is started..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
Mandriva