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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 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.

I wasn't aware that updmap --enable changes updmap.cfg. I thought it
would only enable it for the current run.

Okay, I agree that we should get rid of update-updmap post sarge. And
the manpage of updmap should make this clearer ("*Permanently* 

      --enable maptype mapfile
-             Add or enable a Map or MixedMap.
+             Permanently add or enable a Map or MixedMap

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie