Bug#358330: fmtutil-sys: use local user texmf.cnf when configuring system wide files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 22.03.06 Vincent Danjean (Vincent.Danjean@ens-lyon.org) wrote:

Hi Vincent,

http://bugs.debian.org/358330

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-15
> Severity: minor
> 
> As my HOME is nfs mounted with root-squash enable (ie root cannot access
> my HOME dir), I noticed that fmtutil-sys try to load my local texmf.cnf:
> 
> [...]
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... done.
> 
> To avoid this, I need to do a "su -" (sudo and/or su without "-" option
> is not sufficient).
> 
> Note that I think that with "su -", fmtutil-sys still try to look at the
> user config file. However, as root's home is local, I do not have such
> messages.
> 
> Can't the fact that fmtutil-sys try to read the user config file lead
> to bad system-wide config file (if the user config file is badly
> written) ? I am not sure of that, hence the minor serverity.
> 
According to the bug history Karl Berry planned to fix that bug in
one of the next releases (that was in 2006). Chances are good that
the problem is solved in TL 2007 currently being in unstable.

Would you be so kind to check if the problem has been solved?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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