Bug#328291: debconf, tex-common and the management of ls-R and .cnf files

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Choosing local sets the permission for /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL to the
> 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:

frank@alhambra:~$ groups
frank dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev staff users
frank@alhambra:~$ mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /home/frank/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /home/frank/.texmf-config/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /home/frank/.texmf-var/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Done.

Regards, Frank


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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer