[Fontconfig] [PATCH] never try to validate cache files when using fc-cache -f

[Patrick Lam]

Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:47, Patrick Lam wrote:
> 
> 
>>	if (!force && FcDirCacheValid (dir) && FcDirCacheHasCurrentArch (dir))
>>
>>checks for cache validity and ought to ensure that -f will try to save
>>the cache files.  Of course it might fail for some other reason.
> 
> Hmm, indeed. but I want one switch to make sure no corrupt cache files stay 
> around, as we have way too many problems with them. 

It would be great to have a --really-force flag, then.  The man page
doesn't think about the issues involved in multiarch cache files.

>>-f works for me.  Does it not work for you?  What should the semantics
>>of -f be?  Perhaps there should be -f and --really-force, which would
>>always remove cache files; that's certainly not what we want to give
>>when we make install.
> 
> 
> what does make install have to do with it (curious)? Indeed, the normal 
> behaviour whould be to just run "fc-cache" I think. 

make install runs fc-cache -f -v, as I'd imagine postinst scripts would
as well.

pat