Re: updmap vs updmap-sys

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Anyway, setting something like SHOW_UID_WARNING isn't that easy, as when
> root is detected, updmap calls updmap-sys, which in turn calls updmap
> again with different settings. I don't see an easy solution for this.

You can transfer variables to the childs with export.  I just checked
it; that does not only work from updmap-sys to updmap (as already done
for TEXMVAR, TEXMCONFIG and progname), but in two test scripts also from
export-exec to export-executed and again to export-exec:

,---- export-exec
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| echo starting export-exec
| 
| if [ -z $loop ]; then
|   export FOO=bar
|   exec ~/bin/testing/export-executed
| fi
| 
| echo back again
| echo $FOO
`----

,---- export-executed
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| echo export-executed: setting loop
| export loop=yes
| echo $loop
| 
| exec ~/bin/testing/export-exec
`----

Regards, Frank

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