Bug#263715: fmtutil.cnf still not found in tetex-bin 2.0.2-18
On 17.08.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Mauricio Fuentes Montero <mfuentes@alumnos.utalca.cl> wrote:
Hi,
> > mfuentes@Beethoven:~$ egrep '^TEXMF |^VARTEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> > TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> > mfuentes@Beethoven:~$ egrep '^TEXMF |^VARTEXMF'
> > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
> > VARTEXMF = /var/lib/texmf
> > TEXMF =
> > {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>
> Thank you. And now, what happens if you do (as root)
>
> update-fmtutil -v
>
He meant update-texmf I guess.
> egrep '^TEXMF |^VARTEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
>
> and if there's a VARTEXMF now, you can run "dpkg --configure -a"
> and get a working tetex-bin, but I fear this will not happen.
>
H.
P.S. patch for update-texmf.8 attached
--
sigmentation fault
--- - 2004-08-17 15:00:22.000000000 +0000
+++ update-texmf.8 2004-08-17 14:59:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
-update-texmf \- shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
+update-texmf \- shell script to generate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-texmf
.I "[options]"
@@ -15,15 +15,18 @@
because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.
.PP
.B update-texmf
-is a shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf from files in
+is a shell script to generate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf from files in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/*.cnf
.PP
The tetex-bin provides 05TeXMF.cnf to 95NonPath.cnf and we assume
that other TeX related packages should use the name only with the lower cases.
The two digit numeral determines the order in which update-texmf read a file.
.PP
-A user who wants to customize /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf should add,
+A user who wants to customize /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf should add,
for example, 22mymacro.cnf in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and run 'update-texmf'.
+Thanks to ucf(1) update-texmf will regard manual changes of
+/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, however it is recommended to change the files in
+/etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and to generate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
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