To support EDM on RHEL8, we needed to update the font RPMs so that they could be correctly installed via satellite. These are now with SciComp.
With these deployed, there should be significantly less people looking to install the fonts on their machine. However, in the event that they still need them, the installation here will work locally.
Because of this, I have made the following changes:
Updated the README to explain the current state of the fonts
Added spec files generated by rpmrebuild for the three original fonts (which were modified to create the new RPMs SciComp has). Hopefully this will provide clarity of their behavior in future.
What's wrong with them:
The symlink is created in the %post scriptlet and uninstalled in the %postun step. When reinstalling or upgrading a package the %post of the new package is run before %postun of the old package. In short, when reinstalling the package the symlinks were being created then immediately removed.
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1 year ago
To support EDM on RHEL8, we needed to update the font RPMs so that they could be correctly installed via satellite. These are now with SciComp.
With these deployed, there should be significantly less people looking to install the fonts on their machine. However, in the event that they still need them, the installation here will work locally.
Because of this, I have made the following changes:
What's wrong with them: The symlink is created in the %post scriptlet and uninstalled in the %postun step. When reinstalling or upgrading a package the %post of the new package is run before %postun of the old package. In short, when reinstalling the package the symlinks were being created then immediately removed.