Re: Packaging Hebrew elatex stuff?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> I want to package some Hebrew additions to the babel system (heblatex).
> (The upstream tar balls are at http://www.dsg.technion.ac.il/heblatex.)
> I am going to have the package depends on tetex-extra.
>
> Can I assume that every debian machine has tex in a standard directories or
> should my deb read /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and obtain the directories it need
> from there? If the first case is true then basically all the deb will do is to
> install files and mktexlsr. On the former case it seems to me that I will have
> to untar to a temporary locations, run elatex and move the files to their
> final positions - all these actions done by the package scripts during
> installation.
>
> The directories and files involved are (paths taken from my system):
>
> 1. /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/
> 2. /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/
> 3. /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map
These files/directories are in tetex-base, that means everyone who has
tetex-base installed has them at these locations (except perhaps very
ancient versions of tetex-base?).
> Should I put the docs in /usr/share/doc/package-name or is there another
> common place?
>...
That's the right place (why did you think there would be another place?).
cu
Adrian
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