Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 294197 pending
thanks

Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> schrieb:

>> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this
>> inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. 
> In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do
> anything in $HOME, be it mine or root's and regardless of having called
> texhash/mktexlsr or not.

You're right, and therefore everything that goes amiss when HOME is
unset is buggy by itself. I don't expect much of this in teTeX,
therefore I have fixed this in our CVS.

Regards, Frank

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