Hello, On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:41:15 +0900 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote: > On Do, 07 Jul 2011, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > > Is it possible to run mktexlsr and updmap-sys (and, possibly, other > > TeX things) just once when installing or removing packages which > > need to run them in postinst/postrm? I've been trying to remove some > > not-really-needed latex-cjk-* packages to minimize my old > > laptop's system installed size, and the removal process appeared to > > run for ages... > Can you provide a log showing what went wrong in your case? Nothing went wrong, it was just doing mktexlsr/updmap-sys after each package's removal. And no, I have no log, unfortunately :( > On Do, 07 Jul 2011, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I think these processes could be moved over to dpkg triggers, it > > just takes someone to do the work. > As Hauke said, updmap and mktexlsr is already handled by triggers. > And all TeX related packages I know of already use dh_installtex > so they should be using trigger, too. > Sometimes we *have* to run these commands out of trigger sequenece > right in the postinst, esp when formats are concerned. > With TL2011 updmap runs will be *MUCH* faster as we switched to > a perl script that runs in a fraction of the time of the old > shell script. Well, I think I need to upgrade the packages and to try to reproduce the situation. -- WBR, Andrew
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