Re: (fwd) Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common
On 03.02.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
Hi,
> >> > 2. In this particular case, we would be safe if:
> >> >
> >> > a) Every package that uses /var/lib/texmf/ depended on
> >> > tex-common (so that tex-common can wipe out the directory when
> >> > purged).
> >> >
> >> > b) Every non-optional file stored in /var/lib/texmf/ was
> >> > regenerated at configure time by the responsible package (so
> >> > that the sequence I gave in my previous mail doesn't cause any
> >> > file loss under /var/lib/texmf/).
> >> >
> >> > As far as the pool files are concerned, this is static stuff,
> >> > right? So, they are in the wrong TEXMF tree, IMHO. As for
> >> > mfw.base, I don't know its purpose, so I cannot comment.
> >> >
> >> I don't find the statement above in the "The Debian TEX
> >> sub-policy". Isn't it worth to be put into it?
>
> Which statement did you refer to - the one about pool files not
> belonging to TEXMFVAR, or the one about mfw.base?
>
> As for the latter, it seems that it is gone (texlive has mf and
> mf-nowin, but not separate base files).
>
hille@kloetzer:~ $ locate base|grep web2c|grep -v home
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base
hille@kloetzer:~ $ locate base|grep web2c|grep -v home|xargs ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155100 2007-11-20 09:42
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base
Seems to be rather recently generated.
The pool files are arctuall in the correct dir (not generated files):
hille@kloetzer:~ $ locate pool|grep web2c
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/aleph.pool
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.pool
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.pool
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.pool
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/tex.pool
I thought about putting point 2 a) and b) into the policy. As far as I
understood Florent he was thinking about methods to prevent further
bugs in other packages and one is to write policies.
H.
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