Bug#357983: tetex-bin: mktexmf can't write new .mf files
Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> I just discovered that mktexmf can't write to /var/cache/fonts (and below)
> anymore, making it impossible for any user to process LaTeX files requiring
> the generation of new font descriptions.
Did you read /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian? If not, would it
have helped you understand the problem?
> Note for the reader potentially suffering from this problem: adding you to
> this group is not enough. It is not even enough to start a new shell. You have
> to really login again (or maybe newgrp would suffice ?) for the change to take
> effect. If somebody can explain this to me, I'm interested.
That's how it's always been on UNIX systems.
teTeX folks, I fear we have to revert this change and make the system
insecure by default. I suggest that we change it only for fresh
installations and leave unstable users to chmod -R.
Comments?
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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