Subject: Re: packaging a font?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/19/2003 10:44:01
On 12/19 19:37, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:15:32PM -0500, Perry E.Metzger wrote:
> > I want to package an X font up (ProFont, see:
> > http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/) but I'm at a loss about how
> > to do it cleanly.
> > 
> > The font in question is delivered as a zip file that contains a few X
> > bitmap font files -- I am not even clear on where they should be
> > placed in an xpkgwedge world, let alone how to rig things so that
> > they'll be properly mkfontdired etc.
> > 
> > Could someone give me some ideas on how to do this?
> 
> The pkgsrc/fonts/ko-* packages seem to do something the same --
> try them for inspiration.

Shouldn't we be encouraging the use of fonts.mk?