Re: Bits from tetex maintainers
From: Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: Bits from tetex maintainers
Date: 20 Dec 2002 10:18:04 +0100
> > - font package foo should put map file, e.g. foo.map, somewhere
> > in /usr/share/texmf/dvips// ?
>
> I think it belongs to /etc/texmf/dvips as that's where .map files are
> put today - and it makes sense as people should be able to modify their
> .map's if they want to.
Ah, I forgot that /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config was a symlink
of /etc/texmf/dvisp, so you are right. I7m too hasty.
> > - it (foo.map) should be registered in umdmap.cfg like
> > Map foo.map ?
> > - so font package foo should put a file 10foo.cfg with
> > the content "Map foo.map" in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/
> > and run update-updmap to generate updmap.cfg ?
>
> Exactly.
Okay, but Julian said
From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: Bits from tetex maintainers
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:04:49 +0000
> Could well work. Also, since updmap is the only file which reads
> updmap.cfg, it may not be hard to convert it to read updmap.cfg AND
> the updmap.d directory directly, without rewriting the updmap.cfg
> file. Although it probably makes sense if all of the config files in
> tetex work in the same way.
so if this is really not so hard, this might be better than
my idea. Anyway, this issue concerns conffiles and/or
configuration files, we should decide how to do.
Best regards, 2002-12-20(Fri)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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