Bug#328291: debconf, tex-common and the management of ls-R and .cnf files
On Die, 27 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > respective user/group/mode as specified in debconf. BUT: /var/lib/texmf
> > is *not* writable by the `users' group. Thus, calling mktexlsr does not
> > work, evene if the ls-R is writable. Any solutions for this problem?
>
> Are you sure that the user you tried with is in the "users" group? An
> ordinary new Debian user is only in the group named after his
> username. Here it works:
YOu probably have writte permissions anyway: In my chroot cave:
norbert@gandalf:~$ groups
norbert users
norbert@gandalf:~$ ls -l /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 79 Sep 25 16:31 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
norbert@gandalf:~$ mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /home/norbert/.texmf-config/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /home/norbert/.texmf-var/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /home/norbert/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/cache/fonts: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: Done.
norbert@gandalf:~$ ls -l /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 79 Sep 25 16:31 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
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
Best wishes
Norbert
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