Bug#334747: updmap-sys --syncwithtrees
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> With the syncwithtrees option, updmap creates a sed script and then runs
>> sed with that script over the conffile. I think if sed does not find a
>> match it silently skips the command, so we could simply run the sed
>> command iteratively over all files we have found (with the mechanisms
>> already present), and then reexecute updmap.
>
> Hmmm, you are obviously trying your best to have these commands work on
> Debian, but is it really a good idea here? For instance, if tetex-extra
> is removed-but-not-purged and you use --syncwithtrees, you will
> effectively comment out every line of 20tetex-extra.cfg.
>
> Personally, I think I would not care about all that and simply tell them
> to edit the files under /etc/texmf/updmap.d/...
ACK
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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