Re: Open issue: MakeTeXPK
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:28:15PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> looking into the bugs on tetex, we have still the open issue of the
> writable /var/spool/texmf (32652, 37606, 57746, 69609). There were
> several proposals how we can solve this, with a suid-perl script
> (which was somewhat deprecated from tex people because they don't want
> all the people to install perl) or with a setgid script and a special
> group.
I've recoded the mktex* scripts in Perl (although they may be a little
out of date by now); they're in the libkpathsea-perl package. I
haven't had time to work on the suid version which would be needed,
but if anyone would like to take them over, please feel free! I can
give some pointers on what would need doing.
Julian
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