Upgrade a font

[miquecg]

Hi,

From help:

update -u -- updates the font package index of debian sid

Does this mean that when a font is updated it downloads and install the latest version? How would I upgrade a font?

Thanks!

[alexmyczko]

Hi @miquecg

the update option really downloads just a package index file from debian, that lists what fonts can be installed from debian sid.

if you want to upgrade a font, you'd just fnt install fontname (without fonts- or google-).

however, keep in mind, fnt doesn't keep track of individiual font files, and if updated fonts ship fonts with different names, old font files stay around.

[miquecg]

Ok, that's what I supposed but wanted to be sure.

So it looks like there's no obvious way to know when an installed font was updated. At least from a user perspective.

[alexmyczko]

well yes there is, timestamp of files... see ls -l or stat commands

[crpb]

i will just leave that here for anyone eager to implement something

for file in ~/.fonts/*; do curl 'https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords='"${file##$HOME/.fonts/}"'&mode=&suite=sid&arch=any' |sed -ne 's/.*href="\/sid\/\([^"]*\).*$/\1/p' ; done

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[crpb]

There are md5sum's available from #40 so an actual "upgrade" could be implemented with the help of the index files.

[alexmyczko]

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