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From: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: 30655@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:27:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180301222735.71e4d1fe@jasniac.instanton> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vaefwuw9.fsf@gmail.com>

Alex—

Je  1 mrt 20:47 skribis Alex:
> I fixed it on my side simply by making 'my-xorg-server' package
> that uses a "fixed" version of libxfont (that supports symlinks).
> 
> If anyone is interested, I also wrote a descriptive commit message here:
> 
>   https://notabug.org/alezost/guix-config/commit/161d5e2e36e53c0d9c46181e10e1595e607748dd

That's an interesting approach as well!  Of course, the change in the
documentation as Ludo' proposed is a bit less invasive :-)

I wonder if the libXfont security issue couldn't be solved in a way
such that it can still handle symlinks.  But it is not something to
dwell over long: the documentation change is sufficient in my opinion.

—Marco

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-01 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28 21:54 bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path Marco van Hulten
2018-03-01 16:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-01 21:17   ` Marco van Hulten
2018-03-02 12:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-01 17:47 ` Alex Kost
2018-03-01 21:27   ` Marco van Hulten [this message]
     [not found] ` <handler.30655.D30655.151999474622089.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2018-03-03 15:26   ` bug#30655: closed (Re: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path) Marco van Hulten
2018-03-04 21:41     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-17  2:47 ` bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path Royce Strange

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