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Bug#133934: tetex-bin: doesn't work as a non-root user



Am Mon, 2002-03-04 um 14.35 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > > Or better still, do something like the following in the postinst:
> > > 
> > > VARTEXFONTS=`kpsewhich --expand-var='$VARTEXFONTS'`
> > > if [ -n "$VARTEXFONTS" ]; then
> > >   if [ ! -d "$VARTEXFONTS" ]; then
> > >     texconfig font vardir "$VARTEXFONTS"
> > >   fi
> > > fi
> > 
> > This would mean changing texmf.conf from postinst, which we don't want
> > until we have a tool which writes texmf.conf
> 
> True.  Then how about this as an alternative possibility:
> 
> vardir=`kpsewhich --expand-var='$VARTEXFONTS'`
> if [ -n "$vardir" ]; then
>   test -d "$vardir" ||
>     { mkdir "$vardir" && chmod 755 "$vardir"; } || return 1
>   test -d "$vardir/pk" ||
>     { mkdir "$vardir/pk" && chmod 1777 "$vardir/pk"; } || return 1
>   test -d "$vardir/tfm" ||
>     { mkdir "$vardir/tfm" && chmod 1777 "$vardir/tfm"; } || return 1
>   test -d "$vardir/source" ||
>     { mkdir "$vardir/source" && chmod 1777 "$vardir/source"; } ||
>     return 1
> fi
> 
> (taking code straight from texconfig).
> 
> And one would need rm -rf $vardir type-stuff in postrm on purge.

Would you submit that to the CVS?

Christoph

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