Re: CVS cmc tetex-bin: Changed VARTEXFONTS to conform with FHS: was /var/spool/texmf, now /var/cache/texmf; modified debian/postinst to move directory if necessary. Closes #61627.

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

"JG" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk> writes:


    JG> Unfortunately, it's messier than this.  The FHS specifies
    JG> /var/cache/fonts, not /var/cache/texmf.  And this
    JG> directory may contain other stuff besides texmf-generated
    JG> fonts, so we can't simply do an rm -rf on it in the postrm
    JG> :-(

Oh, I knew it had to be more complicated than it looked.

Sorry, I should've spent more time looking into the details.
You've probably already noticed that my changes moved the contents
of /var/spool/texmf rather than deleting them (even if it is
possible to just regenerate fonts, I can't see any reason to
aggravate people more than absolutely necessary).

What other kinds of stuff end up in /var/spool/texmf?  When I
looked on my machine, all I saw were font-related files.

    JG> I will fix it up as best I can.

Thanks.

   CMC

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