Bug#297284: base: tetex after sarge install not setup correctly
Jeff Green <jbgreen@frontiernet.net> schrieb:
> My problem and maybe this may be true of others is that I just copied
> my environment variables from previous accounts. I've been using latex
> since somewhere in the 90s. Apparently those settings didn't break the
> tetex environment in woody.
>
> However, more to the point, is the sarge debian treatment of tetex for
> environment variables consistent with what I might discover in docs in
> CTAN or wherever official TeX info comes from. If so, then no
> problem.
Yes, there is nothing Debian-specific with respect to environment
variables.
> info purposes, the only *other* ones that were set that caused the
> behavior in the bug report are TEXMFCNF and TEXMF.
It is probably the TEXMF variable. Both should have been set in
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf even on woody, but on woody it was rather harmless
if you manipulated TEXMF in your environment, as long as
/usr/share/texmf/ was in it. Now it must also contain /var/lib/texmf.
In the upcoming teTeX-3.0, it will usually contain even more
directories, and you will at least use lots of functionality if you mess
with TEXMF in your environment. In essence, if your the admin, read and
edit /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf if you want to add trees. If you're
not the admin, bug your admin until he does...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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