Changes/FontconfigCacheDirChange

Fontconfig cache directory change

Summary

The fontconfig cache files are placed onto /var/cache/fontconfig now. this seems incompatible with the ostree model. so this is a proposal to move it to /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache.

Owner

• Name: Akira TAGOH
• Email: <tagoh@redhat.com>
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 26
• Last updated: 2017-01-25
• Tracker bug: #1416380

Detailed Description

The fontconfig cache files are placed onto /var/cache/fontconfig now. this seems incompatible with the ostree model. so this is a proposal to move it to /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache as proposed at #1377367

Benefit to Fedora

Atomic Host requires this change and good to use the same package from the POV of the maintenability.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Rebuild the fontconfig package with the changes of the proposed cache directory.

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

Revert the changes to place the caches at /var/cache/fontconfig.

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

The place of the fontconfig caches has been moved from /var/cache/fontconfig to /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache.