Bug#396826: tex-common: Please make section 2.4 of TeX-on-Debian more precise about user settings
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 16:05 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
> > One problem is that texmf.cnf is only searched along the compiled in
> > TEXMFCNF (not TEXMFCONFIG). At least as long as it is not defined in the
> > environment. So in order for the above to work, one would also need
> >
> > export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:
> >
> > (the final colon includes the system wide default).
>
> --- doc/TeX-on-Debian.sgml (Revision 1926)
> +++ doc/TeX-on-Debian.sgml (Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -546,11 +546,25 @@
> <p>
> <prgn>update-texmf</prgn> is only available for root; if a
> user wants to maintain their own <file>texmf.cnf</file>,
> - they can put it into <tt><var>TEXMFCONFIG</var>/web2c</tt> and must
> - manually edit it. Since all <file>texmf.cnf</file> files
> - are read, with earlier definitions taking precedence over
> - later ones, it is best to keep only a minimal set of
> - definitions in the user-specific file.
> + they can put it into <tt><var>TEXMFCONFIG</var>/web2c</tt>
> + and must manually edit it. However, in order for it to be
> + found, they need to set an environment
> + variable
> + <footnote>
> + The reason for this is that the search
> + path for <file>texmf.cnf</file>, which is the file that
> + defines all search paths for later use, naturally cannot
> + be specified in the file, but is fixed at compile
> + time.
> + </footnote>:
> +<example>
> +export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:
> +</example>
> + The final colon includes the system wide default. Since
> + all <file>texmf.cnf</file> files are read, with earlier
> + definitions taking precedence over later ones, it is best
> + to keep only a minimal set of definitions in the
> + user-specific file.
> </p>
ACK
cheerio
ralf
PS: Thanks for writing this up. Only now I am sitting before my DEbian
machine again.
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