Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed
retitle 366907 Checking configuration files does not work properly
severity 366907 normal
thanks
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:30 -0400, Liam M. Healy wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer to tex-common, the separate purge and
> reinstallation seems to have fixed the problem.
Welcome. I am downgrading instead of closing this bug, since I can
reproduce this part here:
> I do not recall being
> asked about 05TexMF.cnf; I usually look at the differences if I do not
> have a good feeling that the changes are benign and that the old
> configuration is acceptable.
I started with a clean sid-pbuilder. After that I did the following
# apt-get install tex-common
# apt-get remove tex-common
# vi /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
# egrep 'TEXMFDIST =' /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
% TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-dist
% TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive}
# apt-get install tex-common
# egrep 'TEXMFDIST =' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
% TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-dist
% TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive}
# ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/
total 44
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6711 May 13 17:19 05TeXMF.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 May 13 17:15 15Plain.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3410 May 13 17:15 45TeXinputs.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1240 May 13 17:15 55Fonts.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 May 13 17:15 65BibTeX.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689 May 13 17:15 75DviPS.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2684 May 13 17:15 85Misc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333 May 13 17:15 90TeXDoc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6485 May 13 17:15 95NonPath.cnf
Even though I modified 05TeXMF.cnf, I was /not asked/ about this during
reinstallation of tex-common! Even though the settings in 05TeXMF.cnf
would /break/ the system, since TEXMFDIST is not set, the checks in
tex-common's postinst did /not detect/ this! What is going wrong here?
BTW, in addition I got
# ls -l /var/cache/fonts/
total 12
drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 pk
drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 source
drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 tfm
without any questions asked. I thought the default should be world
writable to get things like pbuilder/bbuild correct. I admit I didn't
follow the discussions on that problem very closely, though.
cheerio
ralf
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