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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
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
Test that you have /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache directory exists along with cache files in it. Before this change the location was /var/cache/fontconfig directory.
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.