#1525 BLOC Update.: fontconfig cache is invalidated too easily on mtime check

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#1525: fontconfig cache is invalidated too easily on mtime check
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  Reporter:  jg       |       Owner:  sayamindu
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  Update.1 
 Component:  distro   |     Version:           
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  upstream 
  Verified:  0        |  
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Comment(by sayamindu):

 This is very strange. If the build system sets the time, it should not
 affect the workings of fontconfig.

 I have added a slightly modified fontconfig.spec file which takes care of
 %post issue that I mentioned in the earlier comment, and also makes the
 fc-cache call verbose (so that I can be sure that it actually gets
 executed during the build).

 The only interesting thing that I could find in the build log is
 {{{
   Installing: nafees-web-naskh-fonts       #####################
 [262/358]/var/cache/fontconfig: invalid cache file:
 3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-x86.cache-2
 }}}

 Correctly removing older caches ''should'' take care of this hopefully.

 I also did a small test where I flashed to joyride build 327 (with the
 date set correctly), installed the RPM (built with the new spec file) by
 hand (rpm -Uvh), and set the time to 1999 and rebooted. On the reboot, I
 ran Browse, and it worked perfectly. Manual invocation of fc-cache was
 never done at any stage.

 Could you possibly do a build with an RPM generated from the spec file
 that I have attached? (you'll also need the mtime_fix.patch file)

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