Bug#61742: marked as done (texconfig dvips configuration problem)
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From: Milan Zamazal <Milan.Zamazal@inet.cz>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: texconfig dvips configuration problem
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.6-4
Severity: normal
When I invoke `texconfig', choose "DVIPS", "GLOBAL", "A4SIZE", "CMD", ENTER,
"RETURN", "RETURN", "EXIT" (the purpose of this is to redirect dvips output to
a file instead to a printer), the resulting configuration `config.ps' is
written to /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps. But when dvips is invoked,
it uses /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps instead, so a user wastes paper and toner
again after reconfiguring his dvips.
(BTW, I consider the default configuration sending the output to the printer
being a bug. I know it's probably an upstream bug, but I'd vote for changing
this user-unfriendly behavior in Debian.)
Milan Zamazal
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux sparrow 2.2.14 #1 Pá bøe 31 14:11:54 CEST 2000 i686
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-perl 0.1-3.0 Perl interface modules for dpkg
ii ed 0.2-18 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.1.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpng2 1.0.5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-8 The GNU stdc++ library
ii tetex-base 1.0-8 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-lib 1.0.6-4 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii xlib6g 3.3.6-6 shared libraries required by X cli
ii zlib1g [libz1] 1:1.1.3-5 compression library - runtime
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/texmf/mktex.cnf changed [not included]
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf changed [not included]
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From: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#61742: texconfig dvips configuration problem
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Milan Zamazal writes:
> >>>>> "CM" == Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de> writes:
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> CM> I can't confirm that. There is no /var/lib/texmf/dvips/
> CM> directory in the distribution. The config.ps is written to
> CM> /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps. I just verified that.
>
> CM> I suppose there is something weird in your system.
>
> I've found the problem was that the VARTEXMF environment variable was
> set to /var/lib/texmf. According to the VARTEXMF "documentation" in
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf the behavior of texconfig was right. I apologize
> for a mistaken bug report.
>
Ok. Closing
C.
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