Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

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

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 23:54:23 +0200

> > If so I didn't see so significant problem in them.
> > 
> The submitter sees a non-significant problem here. I suggested to
> downgrade to wishlist and posted some drafts for a solution.

Okay.  I see the proposed solution might be very smart.

I suspect that /tmp/tex* and /tmp/updm* might be useful
even if fmtutil and/or uddmap ended with success.

So the followings are only for a tiny note;

There could happen, for example, where initex might read 
some non-standard file from /usr/local/* or ~/texmf/ but 
it generated foo.fmt successfully, then afterwards the foo.fmt
might cause a problem because of some inconsistency.

Of course /tmp/tex* or /tmp/updm* might be already removed
at that instance and, as Frank pointed out, there should be 
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/*.log but, for normal users, it might
be more user-friendly to provide /tmp/tex* of /tmp/updm* than
so may *.log in a very deep directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c/, 
I guess.

Hmm, esthetically, I also prefer /tmp/tetex* than 
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/*.log

Regards,			2004-5-27(Thu)
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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima