Bug#390349: Bug#388399: FTBFS problems on alpha, mips[el]: Please help debugging
[please note the different bug number]
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Where does the input for the cache come from? If the input is always from a
> privileged location (i.e., /usr/share, /usr/lib, /etc), then it's possible
> -- and, I think, vastly preferable -- to have an suid wrapper for mktexmf to
> manage /var/cache.
>
> If the font input comes from user-specified, non-privileged locations, then
> this can't ever be safely written to a shared location.
The input can come from the current directory, the user's own TEXMF tree
or any directory specified in the MFINPUTS (etc.) variable.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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