Bug#972167: texlive-lang: changed the pdftexconfig.tex file to /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex, breaking paper size config
On 2020-10-13 23:38:31 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks for the report, indeed, indeed. That is btw a problem also
> upstream. The problem is that the previous file under
> TEXMFVAR/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
> is still present but changes are done in
> TEXMFVAR/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
>
> Searching for all of these files with
> kpsewhich -all pdftexconfig.tex
> gives three hits.
Note that after setting the paper size back to a4 with
"dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1", i.e.
# dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
Replacing config file /etc/papersize with new version
a4
tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to a4: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --refresh.
This may take some time... done.
a4
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
a4
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
a4
tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
I now get:
cventin:~> tl-paper status
Current context paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex): letter
Current dvipdfmx paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg): a4
Current dvips paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps): a4
Current pdftex paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex): a4
Current xdvi paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper): a4
This time, it is the context paper size that has not changed back
to a4. The config file has change from
/etc/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
to
/var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex
I don't know whether this is the same bug, but while a4 was changed
to letter for context, I can't see any change for context in the
"dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" above. At least the above two files
have not changed:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4655 2015-06-25 07:43:39 /etc/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4687 2020-10-13 15:57:43 /var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex
(2020-10-13 15:57:43 was the change to letter).
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