Bug#323828: tetex-bin: updmap fails while installation
Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> Frank Küster schrieb am Wed 24. Aug, 11:57 (+0200):
>> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Das hast du selber gemacht, oder? Was wolltest du damit erreichen? Es
>> > ist nicht sinnvoll und bringt die Reihenfolge der TEXMF-Bäume
>> > durcheinander; es ist der Grund, warum die alten Formate in
>> > /usr/share/texmf/web2c überhaupt gefunden wurden.
>>
>> Uups. For the archive, I should probably translate this to english\dots
>>
>> You did this yourself, didn't you?
>
> Yes.
>
>> What did you want to achive with this change?
>
> I want to prevent the directories .texmf-var/ and .texmf-conf become
> created in the home directory of root (he shares it with another user,
> which makes it unusable for the user, e.g. no write permissons)
Okay, so you're bitten by #294197. We should somehow inhibit creation
of non-existent directories.
> I reset them to $HOME/.texmf-var and -config. Is this OK?
Yes, you should do this. After all, the .texmf-var and -config dirs
will only contain the ls-R files if you always use updmap-sys (not
updmap), and won't hurt much.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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