Bug#376050: please do not claim to "Manage permissions with debconf"
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 19:19 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>>
>> > I think it is not urgent to upload ne wtexlive binararies with this
>> > patch as it fails only in som estrange circumstances. Next upload will
>> > fix it automatically.
>> >
>> > Or did I miss something?
>>
>> No, you are right - it's only under special circumstances that it fails,
>> and can easily be fixed manually.
>
> It fails if TEXMFVAR (=HOME/.texmf-var) does not exist (quite likely)
> and VARTEXFONTS is not writable (unlikely for an already working setup).
> Creating TEXMFVAR by hand would be the manual fix.
>
> The only possible problem I see is if we upload a new version of
> tex-common with a 'mktex.cnf' enabeling the 'texmfvar', and the admin of
> some site decides that VARTEXFONTS is now no longer needed and removes
> it. Users without TEXMFVAR would get problems ...
We should add a note about that in tex-common's NEWS.Debian.
Okay, I worked along Ralf's older mail:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2006/05/msg00531.html
. add appropriate mktex.cnf in /u/s/texmf/web2c (or /e/texmf/web2c?)
Done, in /u/s/texmf/.
. change VARTEXFONTS to /tmp/texfonts (also in the policy)
Done.
. write documentation for NEWS.Debian and README.Debian
Done, please read and correct
. update (pre|post)inst script
Done (postinst, config and templates)
. Do we need transition code? Remove saved answers or things like this?
What to do if the local admin used a mktex.cnf in /e/texmf/web2c to
configure, eg, the MF mode? This would shadow the new mktex.cnf in
/u/s/texmf/web2c.
Done, db_unregister, and a new note if there's a
/etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf.
. test updates and font creation under different circumstances
Done, including the case of an existing /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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