Bug#299809: tetex-base: Wrong searchpath
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> merge 299645 299809
> stop
>
> On 16.03.05 Thomas Kosch (t.kosch@schuckeduster.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> If you install a new/experimental version of a package it was not found
>> because the searchpath is set to
>>
>> TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>>
>> and TEXMFSYSCONFIG is set to $TEXMFMAIN. In the result the old Package
>> in /usr/share/texmf is found and taken.
>>
>>
> Has already been reported. Merging.
> As the TEXMF variable is configurable I rather think that bug is
> wishlist, but I'm not sure. What do you think?
No, it is definitely not wishlist, because it breaks existing setups.
If you change the line to
TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
you have what I will put into the next upload, and dpkg won't ask about
a changed conffile
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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