[OE-core] [oe-commits] Jonathan Liu : fontcache.bbclass: prepend to PACKAGEFUNCS instead of appending

[Khem Raj]

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:41:30AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 30, 2015, at 3:09 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On 29 March 2015 at 00:28, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com <mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> WEBOS_FONTCONFIG_CACHE = "${datadir}/fontconfig/cache"
>>> 
>>> I'm sure there's a good reason why fontconfig caches are going in datadir but I'm not sure I want to know it :)
>>> 
>> 
>> aren’t they variable data files ? where else should it go otherwise 
> 
> I've replied to Ross off-list because I'm not sure how much details I
> should share, but basically we have read-only rootfs which has all the
> font packages installed, so cache from do_rootfs should remain valid
> forever. And we delete everything in /var during reset to factory
> settings (that's why we had to move everything which we want to persist
> during factory resets like this cache).
> 
> We also have additional fontconfig patch which ignores timestamp
> modifications in font directories, so that the cache is considered valid
> even after some manual modification in rootfs (e.g. in devel images
> which can be switched to read-write mode).

may be copy-binds could be deployed ?

> 
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