Re: updmap failed in tetex-bin 3.0-7's postinst
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:52 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> >> In that case, /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips would
>> >> have existed on installation of teTeX 3 already. I don't know how dpkg
>> >> reacts if it can't create the symlink.
>>
>> If dpkf finds a mismatch between directories and symlinks to directories
>> between the system and the deb's contents, it just does nothing; only
>> when a symlink and a file are involved will you get an error.
>
> Grr, that's not nice. I have meanwhile found NOWLINKDIRS in the preinst
> of tetex-base. In principle one could add
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,pdftex} there. That way all
> teTeX packages should install cleanly. However, it would be quite hidden
> to most users that their locally installed fonts are no longer available.
> I guess that would be difficult to debug for most users. :-(
We would trade one bug for the other, and the new one is harder to find.
On the other hand, users should not generate directories or files below
/usr/share/texmf (but use /usr/local/share/texmf or TEXMFHOME). And I
am sure that Walter's installation instructions don't tell them to do
so.
I don't think we should do anything here.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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