Bug#409798: texlive-base-bin: texconfig doesn't handle texmf.d

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2005.dfsg.2-10
> Severity: normal
>
> tfc=`kpsewhich texmf.cnf`
> if test -n "$tfc"; then
>   if test -w "$tfc"; then
>     configReplace "$tfc" '^VARTEXFONTS' "VARTEXFONTS  = $tcBatchFontVardir"
>     /usr/sbin/update-texmf || true
>   else
>
> If run as texconfig-sys, this will change /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and run
> update-texmf afterwards.  This doesn't make sense.

It also uses texlinks --multiplatform, which is probably not a good
idea.  And texlinks should be instructed to act in /usr/local for new
formats. 

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