Font not available

[JC Hulce]

The cantarell font is not available to be used in any program or part of the system after installing the package. This is because the font is installed to /ttf, and it should be installed to /usr/share/fonts/ttf

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I think you need to define $srcdir, otherwise it will just install to /

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Hmm.. i though i had done that. It do install to the correct folder if the deb is used. I am not sure exactly what Launchpad need... I will go through the source again to see if something looks suspicious.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Did you change the /src folder structure? As it should be "/src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/". The rule-file say that /src/* are to be copied to the root. So by having the correct folder structure it will be placed in the /fonts/ folder.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Where can i find the source package to download... can't find it.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I did change the folder structure - launchpad copies the latest cantarell from git directly into /src, with no additional folders. I'll fix the recipe. I didn't know how your package worked.

Source here: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam/+archive/dev/+sourcepub/1715365/+listing-archive-extra

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Now the build failed with the following:
bzr: ERROR: Parent of "file:///home/buildd/build-1c1d404086c992328a1429aab4a1e20fb4b28d8b/chroot-autobuild/home/buildd/work/tree/recipe-%7Brevno%7D~dev/src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/" does not exist.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Ahhh.. i think i see the error. In the rules-file the mkdir makes the directory in the /debian folder when it should be making it in the /font folder. So if you could change that it should build properly.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Nope, same error.
Building tree.
Retrieving 'lp:ugr-cantarell' to put at '/home/buildd/build-41185ba80312c3986f7a0b9ba7d7f660eb6691c3/chroot-autobuild/home/buildd/work/tree/recipe-{revno}~dev'.
Retrieving 'lp:~ubuntugnometeam/ugr-cantarell/import' to put at '/home/buildd/build-41185ba80312c3986f7a0b9ba7d7f660eb6691c3/chroot-autobuild/home/buildd/work/tree/recipe-{revno}~dev/src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/'.
bzr: ERROR: Parent of "file:///home/buildd/build-41185ba80312c3986f7a0b9ba7d7f660eb6691c3/chroot-autobuild/home/buildd/work/tree/recipe-%7Brevno%7D~dev/src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/" does not exist.

Looking at the rules file, it seems like it's copying files to the wrong location. If the source is in /src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/, and is copied to $(CURDIR)/font/cantarell-fonts/, that would make it $(CURDIR)/font/cantarell-fonts//src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/. Is this what's supposed to happen.

Also, in my earlier change I had accidentally left references to debian/cantarell-fonts in the clean and binary-arch sections of debian/rules. I am unsure of the effect of this.

BTW, I added you to Team UGR so you can push to the repo if you have bazaar set up and know how to use it. It's lp:ugr-cantarell

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks! I have no clue how to use bazaar though.. I will have to look into it.

Could it be that you moved the /cantarell-font folder from the source? Just realized that could be the reason why it was complaining.

This what the source rule-file say:
 mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/cantarell-fonts
 cp -rf $(CURDIR)/src/* $(CURDIR)/debian/cantarell-fonts/

I am not sure exactly where CURDIR is but when using this to build the deb it worked. It installs to the correct place. The "cp" string say that the inside of /src (excluding "/src") should be copied to current directory. I believe that /debian is "/". So if the folder structure in /src is correct.. i.e "/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/".. then it is there it should be placed.

It might also be some incompatibilities with the git-source we are using...

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I think I found the issue: your source had the font in /src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell/, not /src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell-font/ as you said above.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Ahaa.. yes, that might be it. Maybe the launchpad-builder are stricter than the deb-builder. As the deb-builder would just copy whats in the /src no matter the naming of the folder. While launchpad-builder looks in forehand to verify.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Another problem - the launchpad builder was putting the entire cantarell source at /src/usr/share/fonts/cantarell/, not just the four font files. I adjusted this so only the ttf folder from the source is put in.

[Daniel Sandman (almehdi-deactivatedaccount)]

Cool! Is it working now?

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

No, bzr is throwing all sorts of errors. They're the sort of errors that are bugs that have sat in their to-do list for months, without getting a fix. I'm just going to use your source and forget about building from git, because we have to get this out for 0.1.0 tomorrow.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Of course, they built perfectly with your source. Thanks so much for your work.