Bug#327129: tetex-bin: missing links and formats
Frank Küster wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>> I had a closer look at how the necessary links are created. Most links
>> to programs (eg, texhash -> mktexlsr) are created in
>> texk/tetex/Makefile, which seems to work correctly. The links pointing
>> at 'omfonts' are created in texk/web2c/omegafonts/Makefile, though. No
>> idea why that does not work.
>
> Me neither, and I won't have time to look into it soon.
I'll see if I can find anything. Interestingly, these links are missing
on SuSE 9.3, too.
>> What I am wondering about: Why are the 'format links' explicitly created
>> in tetex-bin_install.in? I thought texlinks(1) is supposed to do that.
>
> We are creating them "statically" so that dpkg knows about them;
> creating them by texlinks in the maintainer scripts would be a bad
> idea.
I see.
> But we could replace the manual link creation by a call to
> debian/tetex-bin/usr/bin/texlinks with appropriate --cnffile and
> DIRECTORIES parameters.
I will have a look at that, too.
cheerio
ralf
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