Bug#328291: debconf, tex-common and the management of ls-R and .cnf files
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Die, 27 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > How does you /var/lib/texmf look like:
>> > $ ls -ld /var/lib/texmf
>> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 25 16:31 /var/lib/texmf
>>
>> Same here:
>
> Bummer. THe differences between texlive and tetex, more detailed,
> between mktexlsr 1.45 (tetex) and 1.46 (texlive):
>
> I guess that this could be the reason:
> --- /sid-tetex/usr/bin/mktexlsr 2005-08-29 16:59:41.000000000 +0200
> +++ /sid-texlive/usr/bin/mktexlsr 2005-09-25 13:00:27.000000000 +0200
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> # <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>, Okt., 1994.
> # Public domain.
>
> -version='$Id: mktexlsr,v 1.45 2005/01/21 19:13:57 olaf Exp $'
> +version='$Id: mktexlsr,v 1.46 2005/06/21 14:32:26 olaf Exp $'
> ...
> @@ -103,9 +105,9 @@
> db_dir=`echo "$db_file" | sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'` # can't rely on dirname
>
> test -d "$db_dir" || continue
> + test -w "$db_dir" || { echo "$progname: $db_dir: directory not writable. Skipping..." >&2; continue; }
[...]
> ... I have to think about this in TeX live. But this is a pity. I will
> ask Thomas about this.
Maybe you should generally have a look at the patches in
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-tetex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/patches/?rev=0&sc=0
especially patch-deb and patch-src. I'm pretty sure I showed the
mktexlsr patch to Thomas Esser once upon a time.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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