Bug#386074: tetex-base: please update version of xkeyval package

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

mike castleman <m@mlcastle.net> wrote:

>> No, the workaround is to install XeTeX (together with the xkeyval
>> version it is shipping) where every additional software should be
>> installed:  Either in /usr/local (so that xkeyval.sty gets into
>> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty) or in $HOME.  In
>> both cases, the updated xkeyval package will take precedence over the
>> one shipped with the Debian teTeX packages.
>
> Hm, for whatever reason this didn't happen for me. The xkeyval in Debian
> was taking precedence over the one in /usr/local, but I suppose that
> this could be an artifact of the rather strange packaging job that XeTeX
> did. I'm not going to worry about it too much.

If the file is below /usr/local/texmf, and found at all (which you can
test with the command "kpsewhere xkeyval.sty"), then it should
definitely take precedence over files in /usr/share/texmf-tetex.  What
is the output of

kpsewhich --var-value='TEXMF'
kpsewhich --progname=xetex --var-value='TEXMF'

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)