It was while using rpm to install emacs that this came up.

Faye

On 27/04/10 13:16, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Faye Gibbins wrote:
>
>> We're using xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2 on SL5.4 and I've noticed that
>> the header for the rpm
>
> Ah. I missed the Subject line. You mean that
> *xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi* requires "mkfontdir".
>
> # rpmquery --scripts xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi | grep mkfontdir
> mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
> mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
> So now I seen the reference, but
> # rpmquery -f `type -a -p mkfontdir`
> xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2.x86_64
> xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2.x86_64
>
> I can't even remove the font to try reinstalling it:
> # rpm -e xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
> error: Failed dependencies:
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi is needed by (installed)
> emacs-21.4-20.el5.x86_64
>


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