Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2c-6
Severity: minor
Hello,
whenever I upgrade tetex via `sudo apt-get upgrade` it creates the file
${HOME}/texmf/ls-R with owner=root and mode 600:
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------ 3 zeisberg users 18 Jan 12 08:58 tex
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/omega.oft installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed.
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ ls -l
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 198 Feb 7 16:33 ls-R
drwx------ 3 zeisberg users 18 Jan 12 08:58 tex
The problem here is, that
a) sudo doesn't unset HOME (which is for most cases a good behaviour)
b) mktexlsr obiously uses ${HOME}/texmf and is not affected by umask[1]
(I'm not sure, if b) alone is already a bug.)
When I add HOME to the envvars that are unset'ed at the top of
tetex-base.postinst, this file is not created.
I noticed the problem, because xdvi (among others) beweils, that it cannot read
this file.
Regards
Uwe
[1]
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ ls
tex
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ sudo -s
root@cepheus:~/texmf# umask 22
root@cepheus:~/texmf# mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /home/zeisberg/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
root@cepheus:~/texmf# exit
zeisberg@cepheus:~/texmf$ ls -l
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 198 Feb 7 16:47 ls-R
drwx------ 3 zeisberg users 18 Jan 12 08:58 tex
--
Uwe Zeisberger
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