Bug#267567: tetex-bin: update-* scripts should have a destdir option
retitle 267567 update-texmf: needs a sane option handling and a destdir option
thanks
"Frank Küster" <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-19
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Packages that build-depend on tetex-bin sometimes need to change the
> configuration files, e.g. increase main_memory, as the
> scalable-cyrfonts package does. Since building is usually done as
> non-root, they cannot use the update-{texmf,updmap,fmtutil}
> scripts. It would be nice if this was made possible by adding a
> --destdir option, allowing to put the changed conffile into a location
> below the package build directory.
This is already solved for update-updmap and update-fmtutil.
update-texmf still lacks such functionality. Moreover, if you call it
with an option it does not recognise (like --help...) it goes into an
endless loop...
Bye, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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