Re: About the updmap and VARTEXMF changes

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 03.09.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:

Hi *,

> The consequence is that if you installed the tetex packages with
> tetex-bin >= 2.0.2-17 before lmodern << 0.92-3, the latter would
> update the map files in /etc/texmf/dvips and not the ones in
> /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config, which with the recommended settings in
> tetex-bin >= 2.0.2-17, take precedence over the ones in
> /etc/texmf/dvips. So, the lmodern fonts would not be seen by Dvips,
> pdfTeX, etc. until the next updmap run that would update the map files
> under /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config... which happens every time one of the
> tetex packages is upgraded, which is why this problem managed to remain
> undetected during all of August. Bah.
> 
I had the same thought last night. Unfortunately I forgot to post
this morning. I guess, that will affect all packages installing
Type1-fonts and registering them using updmap. On
http://people.debian.org/~frank/ is still updmap.check to find the
affected packages. I guess the job to find them and submit bug reports
must be done before sarge, if these packages still generate files in
/etc 

H.
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