Bug#65837: installing local .mf files

[Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu>]

Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> Patch to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf appended below; this would be very good
> to apply ....  

It works for me.  Thanks!  I found I had to mimic the directory
structure of /usr/share/texmf, set the permissions right, install the
new .mf files, and run mktexlsr for it to work.  Maybe a couple of
lines could be added to a file in /usr/share/doc/{texmf,tetex-base}
describing these steps?  And maybe when tetex is installed, the
directory /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/source could be created with
the correct permissions?  Any other relevant directories too.

> Also, maybe we should move /usr/local/lib/texmf to
> /usr/local/share/texmf? 

Sounds good to me.

> -TEXMF = !!$TEXMFMAIN
> +TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}

Just out of curiosity, is there some reason that the local stuff
doesn't override the packaged stuff here?

Thanks again,

Dan

PS:  Any idea why the lams fonts aren't distributed with tetex by default?
Lots of people use them.