Re: Open issue: MakeTeXPK

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"OW" == Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
"CM" == Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>


   CMC> To be fair, though, those Perl scripts are pretty
   CMC> peripheral -- Thomas' scripts are all written as Bourne[
   CMC> Again] shell scripts.

   OW> They're Bourne shell scripts, and even so avoid using
   OW> constructs that some of the older implementations lack.

Mm.  Yes, I knew that -- I was thinking about the way that some of
the scripts have some crazy code to set things differently
depending on which Bourne-shell variant they might be using (see
the top of mkindex, for instance).

The Perl scripts I mentioned seem to be from ConTeXt.


   OW> What I'd like to do is put the necessary code in
   OW> libkpathsea, so the scripts are no longer needed.  But I
   OW> also want to retain the ability to call external programs,
   OW> so that (for example) you could set things up to call a
   OW> setgid kpsewhich with the necessary options to generate
   OW> fonts, rather than require all programs to be setgid.

Probably the best universal solution.  Personally, I just change
the permissions back to 775 on directories and 664 on files when I
need to -- I mostly use PostScript fonts, and there are only two
(completely trusted) users on the system, so that works out fine.
I wouldn't be thrilled about my solution on a real multiuser
system, however.

   CMC

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