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

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

On Monday 27 October 2008, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> Frank analyszed that bug and found out that the problem only occurs
> if TEXMFSYSVAR is nor part of SYSTEXMF. Actually (TL 2007) this is
> not the case any more and I couldn't reproduce your bug any more.
> 
> hille@kloetzer:~ $ mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+120/600 --dpi 720 lhr10
> mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour;
> mag:=1+120/600; nonstopmode; input lhr10
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> 
> (/home/hille/.texmf-var/fonts/source/lh/lh-lcy/lhr10.mf
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Font metrics written on lhr10.tfm.
> Output written on lhr10.720gf (210 characters, 49436 bytes).
> Transcript written on lhr10.log.
> mktexpk:
> /home/hille/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/lh/lh-lcy/lhr10.720pk:
> successfully generated.
> /home/hille/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/lh/lh-lcy/lhr10.720pk
> hille@kloetzer:~ $ 
> 
> Can you? If not, is it OK to close that bug?
> 

It works fine for me now.

However it misbehaved after upgrade from etch to lenny (today).
After upgrade, the above command placed generated fonts under /tmp/texfonts.
When I removed all traces of TeX from the system and reinstalled texlive,
it swithed to the expected ~/.texmf-var. This is probably an unrelated issue,
and I cannot reproduce it any more.

Best regards,
Sergei