Bug#386074: tetex-base: please update version of xkeyval package
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:19 -0400, mike castleman 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.
How did you install XeTeX? The installation script provided by upstream
is a bit odd in that it puts even updated packages like xkeyval into a
XeTeX-specific tree. IIRC by default it uses something like
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
^^
However, files in such a directory are found only at very late point.
One can change this by adjusting some parameters in texmf.cnf. I am not
sure if and how the current XeTeX install script does that.
cheerio
ralf
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