Bug#198546: tetex-bin: mktexlsr/texhash fails writing ls-R as user

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

From: Kai Weber <kai.weber@glorybox.de>
Subject: Bug#198546: tetex-bin: mktexlsr/texhash fails writing ls-R as user
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 02:13:29 +0200

> > Does it make sense, that normal user can update the ls-R database of
> > /usr/local/lib/texmf ?
> 
> If I am asked by debconf to update the ls-R database then it makes
> sense!

Right.  Then possible solutions I can guess are:

1) stop to ask with debconf completely.

2) chown, chmod of /var/lib/texmf etc. to root:users, 664
   in postinst.  ("users" should be debconf answer, of course)

I'm not sure if 2) is secure enough or not.
But perhaps 2) will fix #198549 too.

Thanks,		      2003-7-18(Fri)

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