Bug#412242: tetex-bin: mktexpk places some fonts in the current directory

[Sergei Ivanov <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:01, Frank Küster wrote:
> retitle 412242 fonts generated upon format creation are placed in 
> TEXMFSYSVAR 
[...]
> >> /var/lib/texmf/fonts is and never was supposed to contain pk fonts, if I
> >> remember correctly.

I still think that the issue is about maketexpk. If /var/lib/texmf is not for 
fonts, then it should not be in the search path. If it is, then maketexpk 
should not be confused by the fact that the directory is not writable.

> Now fmtutil-sys should not create the fonts in ~root/.texmf-var,
> naturally, and the question is: If fmtutil would put the fonts in the
> fallback, /tmp/texfonts, where they are erased upon reboot, would that
> cause any problems?

I can think of security problems. What if /tmp/texfonts/something is a symlink 
pointing to a sensitive place?

Regards, Sergei