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Chalk The Walk! – Learing The Fedora Packaging Process
by admin ·
I’ve wanted to learn the process of Fedora packaging for a while now, however I couldn’t find anything not already packaged that I use or want to use. Thanks to Mairin Duffy of the Fedora art team and her weekly blog posts called ‘Unpackaged Open Font of the Week’ , I now had something to package. These posts highlight nice open fonts that are in need of a packager.
The font of the week was Tiza. A bold, chalky slab-serif font inspired by the lovely slab-serif Giza. It supports many diacritics in addition to the basic Latin set of characters. The font was created by Pablo Caro of NuevoStudio.
Using Fonts Packaging and How To Create An RPM package Fedora wiki pages as a guide I grabbed the files, packaged it and posted it on bugzilla for review. While I was on Pablo’s site I saw another font called Bola, I grabbed it, packaged and submitted it for review as well. Little did I know that Mairin was planning Bola as her next font of the week =).
A big thanks goes out to Pablo for creating and licensing the font SIL Open Font License (OFL) and Mairin for her blog posts highlighting these fonts.