On 01.08.04 Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote:
Hi,
> I ran into trouble with update-updmap. After adding a file to
> /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ I expected update-updmap to create a new
> file updmap.conf for later use by updmap.
>
> However, with a virgin unstable system this didn`t work with the
> following comment:
>
virgin unstable system? question: during configure you were asked,
whether you want to maintain you updmap.cfg using update-updmap or
manually. The default answer is yes. In this case
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg will be a file and updmap.cfg doesn't
even exist in /etc (or rather a backup called updmap.cfg.dpkg-old).
If /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg is soft link it will be removed
and will be regenerated.
> openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips# update-updmap
> Didn't run update-updmap as you requested!
> openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips#
>
> The problem is that I didn't request it not to run. Investigating
> the problem the source is:
>
May be you gave the wrong answer during debconf.
> However, with a virgin unstable system this didn`t work with the following
> comment:
>
> VARD=/var/lib/texmf/web2c
> ....
> if [ -L "${VARD}/updmap.cfg" ]; then
> echo "Didn't run update-updmap as you requested!"
> exit 0
> fi
>
> On a virgin sid system
>
> openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips# ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jun 1 2003 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg
> openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips#
>
> So the file is indeed a symbolic link, rendering update-updmap unusable.
> This will at least render arabtex and its fonts unaccessable and hence
> sort of unusable.
>
> I wonder if this is the desired behaviour.
>
It is the not recommended behaviour, but it should be necessary if
anybody wants to maintain his updmap.cfg manually.
H.
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