Bug#478992: update-texmf: Basic configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf missing.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 03.05.08 Jörg Sommer (joerg@alea.gnuu.de) wrote:
> Frank Küster schrieb am Sat 03. May, 11:47 (+0200):
> > "A. Costa" <agcosta@gis.net> wrote:

Hi,

> > > It looks like 'tetex-bin' is missing some files, or it used to have them
> > > and they're now in some other package.  What package has those config files?
> > 
> > tex-common, in etch, lenny, sid. The problem with --force-confmiss is
> > that those files are under ucf control, not dpkg control, and ucf
> > doesn't understand --force-confmiss. 
> 
> BTW: Why are these files managed with ucf? Why doesn't dpkg fit to your
>   needs?
> 
The files are used to build the file texmf.cnf in Debian. This file
however is widely described as the central config file of a TeX
system. So on the one hand the recommended way to change texmf.cnf is
to change the files in question, but direct changes to texmf.cnf
should be regarded. There are a few bugs about this topic for tetex
packages around 2003-2004.
At this time Frank decided to involve ucf.

H.
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