Re: groff issue after upgrade to NetBSD-9.2

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Answer:

Unpacking the textproc set overwrites files like
/usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC and devps/download, and maybe other
files which have been adapted or expanded locally.  The unpacking
process follows any symbolic link that devps has been set to rather
than overwriting the symbolic link with a hard directory.  Fortunately
I have backups.   Would this not be worth a warning in the installation
guide - it's a similar issue  to /etc, where precious lolcalisations
risk being lost?

I know thered is a move not to includee groff etc. in the main
distribution, but some of us use it extensively: I have substantial
software systems which emit *roff source files, it's not just a
manpage generator.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> This is on amd64, but I doubt that that's relevant.
> 
> I have an extensive collection of fonts for PostScript, so
> /usr/share/groff_font/devps is a symbolic link to a /fonts directory.  It
> has been so since NetBSD-1.x and before that on BSD/OS and before that
> into the mists of time.
> 
> I upgraded to NetBSD-9.2 several days ago, and suddenly my standard
> document formats come out all wrong.  The glyphs for the
> variously-acquired (e.g. bought from Linotype) fonts do not seem to be
> available, and the font metrics are wrong for the glyphs that do
> appear.
> 
> I have a practical solution for the moment: if I mount_nfs a backup
> copy of the same fonts directory on a remote server and point
> groff_font/devps at that instead, everything goes back to normal.
> 
> Anyone have any insight into why migrating from 7.0 to 9.2 might cause
> such a problem?
> 
> -- 
> Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>
> 
> 


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