Re: mktex.cnf games

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Ok, but tex-common needs something like
>             if which mktexlsr >/dev/null; then
>                 mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf
>             fi
> as it installs  texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf

Wouldn't it be safer to also check whether kpathsea is usable before
doing that? Remember, dh_installtex has the following code:

dhit_libkpathsea_configured ()
{
    kpsewhich --version >/dev/null 2>&1
}

[...]

        if dhit_libkpathsea_configured; then
            if which mktexlsr >/dev/null; then
                dhit_update_lsr_files
            fi

        [...]

        fi

This is because we found one day that programs such as mktexlsr could be
installed but non-functional when the package providing kpathsea is
unpacked but not configured...

-- 
Florent