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From:
Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Subject:
Re: [new] Oldschool PC fonts
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ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:06:18 +0200

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Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:

> On 2026/04/29 11:19, Manuel Giraud wrote:
>> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:
>> 
>> > These are ripped from pc hardware surely? I don't see how it's legal to
>> > slap a CC BY-SA 4.0 on it...(doesn't entirely rule out adding to ports,
>> > but I don't think it can have PERMIT_DISTFILES/PERMIT_PACKAGE=Yes).
>> 
>> Alright.  I have used what Anthony proposed then.
>> 
>> > Set MODFONT_FAMILY to oldschool-pc, then MODFONT_FONTDIR / MODFONT_DOCDIR
>> > are set correctly. Don't use FONTDIR/DOCDIR. Set MODFONT_FONTFILES and
>> > MODFONT_DOCFILES to the files you want copying rather than doing them
>> > by hand in do-install (see other fonts with MODFONT_DOCFILES etc set
>> > to see how it should look).
>> >
>> > Don't set BUILD_DEPENDS to archivers/unzip, that is done automatically.
>> >
>> > Don't set USE_X11=Yes, that's only for a few fonts which actually need
>> > tools from X sets in order to build the ports.
>> 
>> Thanks.  I think I have fixed all those. But I'm not sure about my dance
>> around the fact the content of the zip is extracted directly in
>> /usr/ports/pobj/oldschool-pc-2.2/.
>
> WRKDIST = ${WRKDIR}
>
>>                                     I'm also not sure of my "remove
>> spaces in directory name" hack.
>
> MODFONT_FONTFILES = ttf*Mx*/*.ttf

Thanks.
-- 
Manuel Giraud