Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
On 21.11.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:01:05 +0100
>
> > I've attached two patches: The first implements my idea of generating
> > these files below /var/lib/texmf/web2c/. The second makes sure I
> > don't try to grep through dead softlinks during postrm.
> > The only problem lost: We have changed the behaviour in out postinst.
> > How about other packages, using that mechanism? Everytime, we change
> > something like that, we have to inform all of them about that and
> > file a bug. Therefore I wouldn't do these things quite often and
> > don't like my solution. Are there still packages, which try to call
> > /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap?
> > If we change it that way, we should leave a note in Readme.Debian and
> > maybe even in the manpage of updmap.
>
> I guess an idea is certainly good, but I feel you are nervous
> about effect of our change to other related packages, right?
>
Exactly.
> In case of update-texmf, 1 or 2 maintainers of other packages
> attended in the discussion from the beginning and I filed bugs to
> some other packages afterwards, if I remembered correctly.
>
> # Perhaps packages which get effect will be very few.
>
Does anybody of us has a clue, how many there are (and even better:
which packages will be affected)? Atsuhito, if my idea is
implemented: will you file bugs against all the affected packages?
Attached two suggestions for the manpage of updmap and Readme.Debian.
Hilmar
--
sigmentation fault
--- README.Debian.orig Thu Nov 27 20:02:29 2003
+++ README.Debian Thu Nov 27 21:22:07 2003
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@
under /var/lib/texmf/web2c (not /etc/texmf !) and run "updmap" itself.
This will generates an appropriate psfonts.map etc.
+Note on updmap:
+===============
+Debian holds the databases generated by updmap in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips.
+Therefore updmap should only be called with
+--outputdir /var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips, when installing local fonts.
+
If installation failed, please check:
- Is there enough room on your hard disk?
--- updmap.man.orig Mon Dec 23 10:32:30 2002
+++ updmap.man Thu Nov 27 21:14:32 2003
@@ -193,6 +193,13 @@
.PP
None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@informatik\&.uni-hannover\&.de> (mailing list)\&.
.PP
+.SH "DEBIAN SPECIALITES"
+.PP
+Debian holds the databases generated by \fBupdmap\fP in
+\fI/var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips\fP. Therefore updmap should only be called with
+\fB--outputdir\fP \fI/var/lib/texmf/web2c/dvips\fP, when installing
+local fonts.
+.PP
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBupdmap\fP was written by Thomas Esser
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