Re: changing teTeX default config. for buildd
Hi folks, thanks for your quick response.
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:43:49AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:44:11AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Issue:
> > I received Bug#148113 from buildd (hppa)
> > http://bugs.debian.org/148113
> > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=hppa&pkg=debian-reference&ver=1.00
> >
> > My thoughts:
> > This is not my bug but a limitation of buildd. What should I do?
> > Why buildd even bother to build documentation (ALL) package?
>
> Your package is Architecture: any, not Architecture: all. This amounts
> to telling the buildds to build it. Note that you're producing
> *_i386.deb files at the moment, not *_all.deb.
???? I will talk to my sponser when I get back from my trip. (I thought I
had ALL) At least in my CVS now.
Package: debian-reference-common
Architecture: all
...
> > Current debian package assumes installing package suffice needs for
> > software to function. Well, for TeX with large source file, situation
> > is not the case. Default is only good for small source.
>
> Imagine what would happen if every package required manual
> customizations in order to build ... our current build systems only
> scale because, except for a very few special cases like glibc and gcc,
> packages are required to build without manual intervention.
Yep.
> debian-reference needs to use a local texmf.cnf so that it can be built
> automatically. If this isn't possible, I think tetex would have to be
> changed so that it is.
Yep. I must set the environment variable
TEXMFCNF=/path/to/dir/with/new/cnf/
then it will read the texmf.cnf in there rather than the systemwise one
in /etc. (Thanks Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>)
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