Bug#321094: solved
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> - on a system with only one TeX user, some fonts (tfm, pfb files) were
>> installed in TEXMFHOME, but the map files were in TEXMFMAIN (because
>> in teTeX-2.0.2 updmap wouldn't find map files in TEXMFHOME)
>
> OT: Was that really a problem with map files not being found? I remember
> that getting updmap to work with fonts in TEXMFHOME was rather tricky in
> teTeX-2.0.2, but my problems were more concerned with the output
> locations etc.
I am not sure now.
>> Christoph, you write above "updmap called by root". Did you actually
>> call updmap as root, manually? I ask because we have tried to make
>> updmap behave as updmap-sys when called by root, but there might be some
>> errors in the patch. The maintainer scripts should call updmap-sys, and
>> they do AFAICS.
>
> For me, updmap called as root writes to /root/.texmf-var/. Also, I see
> nothing in the diff between Debian's updmap and the original one that
> would check for UID or something like that.
Got me. We patch fmtutil to do this (it has a new option --root-home to
allow to create private formats for root, although I consider that kind
of insane), but not updmap.
The questions to Christoph are still interesting.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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