mktexlsr does not include $TEXMFLOCAL when refreshing
Dear Folks,
I have installed TeXLive 2008 on a Debian-based Kubuntu Intrepid AMD-64
PC from DVD.
I realize that the experimental biblatex package will not be part of
TeXLive until it is actually released. Nevertheless, since I use it, I
decided to install it.
I have installed it as directed by the package author and my root texmf
directory is
/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local
which is really
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
This was also the directory returned by
kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL'
I did
sudo mktexlsr
after the installation.
After that,
kpsewhich biblatex.sty
gave a null response.
Only after
sudo mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
was the location of biblatex.sty returned by kpsewhich.
This is contrary to past behaviour because the default paths, like
$TEXMFLOCAL, if they exist, have always been searched and indexed by
mktexlsr.
Is this the standard behaviour from now on, or is it some environment
variable that is missing from my .bashrc file that is causing the
problem? Or is it something I inadvertently did while installing biblatex?
Thank you.
Chandra
P.S. If I have misposted, please direct me to the correct mailing list.
Thanks.
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