Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Gianluca Della Vedova <gianluca.dellavedova@unimib.it>
Subject: Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:17:54 +0100

> After upgrading to latest (sid) tetex version, I am not able to create
> the needed fonts. For example using xdvi the results are below.
> I conjecture that the problem is related to the permission of
> /var/cache/fonts
...
> bash-2.05b$ ls -lap /var/cache/fonts/
> total 6
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           96 2002-11-27 19:06 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root          336 2002-11-15 17:04 ../
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          138 2002-11-27 19:06 ls-R
> drwxr-xr-t    3 root     root           72 2002-11-27 19:06 pk/

Well, I'm not sure but the following lines in postinst
of tetex-base;

     $TEXCONFIG_P font options appendonlydir varfonts
     $TEXCONFIG_P font vardir /var/cache/fonts

which are commented out at present should be uncommented ?

Best regards,		   2002/11/28

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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