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Bug#447863: marked as done ($TEXMFDBS no longer includes $TEXMFHOME)

Your message dated Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:08:11 +0200
with message-id <20071024130811.GD5257@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
and subject line Bug#447863: $TEXMFDBS no longer includes $TEXMFHOME
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Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-14
Severity: normal

I use the same set of texlive-* packages on two machines, one with
etch, the other with sid. I never made a single change in
/etc/texmf. I use the same ~/texmf on both though.

On the etch machine,

  kpsexpand '$TEXMFDBS'
  /home/madduck/texmf/:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/tmp/texfonts:/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}

On sid:

  kpsexpand '$TEXMFDBS'
  {!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}}

As you can see, /home/madduck/texmf/ (== $TEXMFHOME) is no longer
part of this. As a result, kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R does not
output the $TEXMFHOME path and texhash/mktexlsr does not update the
ls-R file, and I have to do that manually, by explicitly stating the
path.

It would be nice if this could be fixed again so that texhash just
updates $TEXMFHOME if present, without requiring an extra step.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii  ed                      0.7-1            The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libkpathsea4            2007-14          TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libncurses5             5.6+20071013-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler1             0.5.4-6.2        PDF rendering library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                 1:1.0.3-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                 1:3.5.7-1        X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support            3.39-1           MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                    5.8.8-11.1       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  texlive-common          2007-12          TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii  perl-tk                      1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.15     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.003      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin                     2007-12    TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tetex-extra                   2007-12    TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tex-common                    1.9        Common infrastructure for using an

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  tex-common/singleuser: false


-- 
 .''`.   martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
: :'  :  proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user
`. `'`   http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info
  `-  Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems

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HI Martin!

On Mi, 24 Okt 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
> As you can see, /home/madduck/texmf/ (== $TEXMFHOME) is no longer
> part of this. As a result, kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R does not

This is a design decision. In fact TEXMFHOME should not need/have a
ls-R file since it is not containing so many files (in normal cases).

Furthermore, texmf.cnf belongs to tex-common, and tex-common's NEWS
ships (besides others):
...
tex-common (1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Filename database in $TEXMFHOME is no longer created and updated
  
    The ls-R filename database in $TEXMFHOME, $HOME/texmf, is no longer
    created in new installs, and also not updated by default.  This makes
    sense unless you have a very large number of files installed in that
    tree. 
  
    However, you MUST remove the old file $HOME/texmf/ls-R in order to
    allow TeX to find new files in that hierarchy!
..

I am closing this bug. If you want you can open a wishlist bug to
tex-common, but it will get a wontfix ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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