Bug#269930: tetex-bin: pdflatex complains of missing fonts and uses a different (uglier) font

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 24.09.04 Frank K?ster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> > On 23.09.04 Frank K?ster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> > And we should abolish that update-updmap and use the mechanisms of
> > updmap itself. Then updmap.cfg could go back to /etc.
> 
> How could a package then make sure that its map files are included?
> When it is installed, it can use "--enable my.map". But when the
> next font package is installed, it will call updmap again, this
> time with "--enable next.map", and my.map will be lost.
> 
> Or what am I missing?
> 
preusse@preusse ~ $ cp /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg updmap.cfg
preusse@preusse ~ $ more my.map
xxxxxxx10 XYATIP10 "1.2 ExtendFont" <xxxxxxxx10.pfb
preusse@preusse ~ $ updmap --enable MixedMap my.map
using config file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
using output directory /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config

<snip>

preusse@preusse ~ $ cp my.map next.map
preusse@preusse ~ $ diff /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg updmap.cfg
158d157
< MixedMap my.map
preusse@preusse ~ $ updmap --enable MixedMap next.map
using config file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
using output directory /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config

<snip>

preusse@preusse ~ $ diff /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg updmap.cfg
158,159d157
< MixedMap my.map
< MixedMap next.map
preusse@preusse ~ $

You have to explicitely --disable the map in postin if you want to
have it removed.

H.
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