Subject: pkg/8000: ghostscript is missing some interim patches
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/14/1999 19:05:40
>Number:         8000
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       ghostscript is missing some interim patches
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager (NetBSD software packages system bug manager)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 14 19:05:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Kohl
>Organization:
NetBSD Kernel Hackers `R` Us
>Release:        NetBSD-current, 1999-07-14
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD kolvir.arlington.ma.us 1.4F NetBSD 1.4F (KOLVIR) #0: Mon Jul 12 19:09:08 EDT 1999 jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us:/usr/u4/sandbox/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/KOLVIR i386


>Description:
There are interim patches for ghostscript linked from
	http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/relnotes/gs550/index.html
I have used these successfully:
	patch-981220.txt
	patch-981222.txt
	patch-990117.txt
	patch-990120a.txt
	patch-990220.txt
	patch-990220c.txt
	patch-990524.txt

(may need path name editing at the top of the patch file)

>How-To-Repeat:
try to use macintosh fonts, notice they fail due to problems as
described in 1999-01-20.

>Fix:
Fetch the patches from that web site, put them in the package.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: