Bug#65837: installing local .mf files
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:14:33AM +0200, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> > Patch to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf appended below; this would be very good
> > to apply ....
>
> It works for me. Thanks! I found I had to mimic the directory
> structure of /usr/share/texmf, set the permissions right, install the
> new .mf files, and run mktexlsr for it to work. Maybe a couple of
> lines could be added to a file in /usr/share/doc/{texmf,tetex-base}
> describing these steps? And maybe when tetex is installed, the
> directory /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/source could be created with
> the correct permissions? Any other relevant directories too.
The directory structure should be included in the tetex-base package.
At package removal time, these directories won't be removed if they
are non-empty, which is what we want.
Might be wise to add some docs about this....
> > Also, maybe we should move /usr/local/lib/texmf to
> > /usr/local/share/texmf?
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> > -TEXMF = !!$TEXMFMAIN
> > +TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}
>
> Just out of curiosity, is there some reason that the local stuff
> doesn't override the packaged stuff here?
Could certainly do it the other way around, yes. I like that (and it
probably better follows policy).
> PS: Any idea why the lams fonts aren't distributed with tetex by default?
> Lots of people use them.
Don't know. Are they free? Where do you find them?
Julian
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