Re: forcing updmap-sys when run as root
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 14:10 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > However, it's not trivial to get this right both for building as root,
> > and with fakeroot.
>
> The reason, of course, being that when you are root, updmap will just
> become updmap-sys without asking. I guess we can and should drop this
> for lenny.
Probably. Some sort of warning, when updmap/texconfig/fmtutil is run as
root, might be appropriate, though. There are still many people having
problems with this distinction.
Anyway, one does not have to register fonts with updmap in order to use
them. For dvips, you can add foo.map with a file config.bar that
contains
p +foo.map
and then use 'dvips -Pbar'. For pdftex, one can use in the sources
\ifpdf\pdfmapfile{+foo.map}\fi. And I think ConTeXt/texexec uses
something similar for dvipdfm(x), too. For building packages, this
should be enough.
cheerio
ralf
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