Enhancement Advisory New liberation-fonts package

Advisory: RHEA-2008:0163-2
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-02-28
Last updated on: 2008-02-28
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
OVAL: N/A

Details

A new fonts package, liberation-fonts, which obsoletes the fonts-monotype
package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 9 is now available.

The Liberation Fonts are a non-proprietary, metric-compatible alternative
to three common proprietary typefaces: Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier
New.

This new package includes three typefaces:

* Sans (an alternative to Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and
Bitstream Vera Sans).

* Serif (an alternative to Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and
Bitstream Vera Serif).

* Mono (an alternative to Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L,
and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).

To allow for a seamless switch from the fonts-monotype package (which
included Albany, Thorndale, and Cumberland, three proprietary typefaces
with similar metrics to Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New), the
liberation-fonts package obsoletes fonts-monotype. Installing
liberation-fonts will, therefore, remove fonts-monotype.

All users wanting access to non-proprietary typefaces should install this
newly-released package.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188


Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)

SRPMS:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.src.rpm     4a071afb238c1efe567b472404ddd204
 
IA-32:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
x86_64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.src.rpm     4a071afb238c1efe567b472404ddd204
 
IA-32:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
IA-64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
PPC:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
s390:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
s390x:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
x86_64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)

SRPMS:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.src.rpm     4a071afb238c1efe567b472404ddd204
 
IA-32:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
IA-64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
x86_64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.src.rpm     4a071afb238c1efe567b472404ddd204
 
IA-32:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
IA-64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
x86_64:
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.1.el3.noarch.rpm     a3f9d460b57b7e5685f23518bfb709ca
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

431219 - [RHEL3] liberation-fonts needs to be added


Keywords

ascender, backport, compatibl, liberation, liberation-fonts, mono, rhel3, san, serif


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