update-canna-dics_dir assembles a
dics.dir file in the Canna dictionary using one or more alias files found in a
subdirectory of
/etc/X11/fonts/ . It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal
scripts of a
package containing fonts (that provide aliases for their names) for the X Window
System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct
fonts.alias files. For each
directory , which is either an absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably)
simply the last component of its path (such as "75dpi" or "misc"),
update-canna-dics_dir will assemble
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ directory /fonts.alias from the files found in
/etc/X11/fonts/ directory / package .alias .
This enables multiple packages to provide aliases for fonts in the same
directory. No font package actually provides the
fonts.alias file in the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting
one package's aliases with those of another.
For instance, the two packages "xfonts-base" and "xfonts-cjk" may both
install fonts into the directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc . They each place their
fonts.alias files in
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-cjk.alias (respectively).
update-canna-dics_dir concatenates these two files (as well as any others that match
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias ) into
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias .
The format for
fonts.alias files is given in the
mkfontdir(1) manual page.
An example of how to use
update-canna-dics_dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
update-canna-dics_dir exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid.
BUGS
See <http://bugs.debian.org/canna>. If you wish to
report a bug in
update-canna-dics_dir , please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt , the
bug(1) command, or the
reportbug(1) command.
AUTHOR
update-canna-dics_dir is written and copyrighted by ISHIKAWA Mutsumi. It is licensed under the
GNU GPL, version 2.
