Bug#522930: marked as done (running mktexlsr for each upgraded package seems unnecessary)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: texlive
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-2
Severity: minor
Running 'mktexlsr' on my 1700MHz laptop takes over 1 minute, and
causes the machine to become sluggy. Yet for some reason it is invoked
after each texlive package I upgrade. Example:
Setting up texlive-lang-hungarian (2007.dfsg.4-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --byhyphen /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat.
This may take some time... done.
Setting up texlive-pstricks (2007.dfsg.17-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time...
etc.
'ps' shows that the same command is being invoked each time:
/usr/bin/mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf /var/lib/texmf /usr/share/texmf-texlive
So presumably 'mktexlsr' could just be run once at the end of the
upgrade, with the same effect. Instead, it is run after each package.
I should note that the upgrade can't be done overnight, or during a
time when I am not using my computer, because sometimes it asks
questions about configuration files which require my attention.
Thus, by having 'texlive' installed, I have inadvertently created a
situation where upgrading Debian requires hours of my attention. This
would not be a problem if 'mktexlsr' were only run once, at the end of
the upgrade.
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##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
######################################
List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 frederik frederik 2610 2007-01-13 07:34 /home/frederik/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1543 2009-04-07 13:45 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 162 2009-04-07 13:36 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2009-04-03 17:25 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2009-04-03 17:25 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2009-04-03 17:25 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
######################################
Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-04-03 17:25 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10806 2009-04-07 13:43 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20197 2009-04-07 13:43 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12417 2009-04-07 13:43 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
######################################
Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 2006-12-11 18:48 mktex.cnf
######################################
md5sums of texmf.d
42c20d7e8bd343542772b5a145bf8ad8 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
f68e5add6afd6585b982f2f78e2e6a92 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
055e06548bac99958d8ab2dd1248f2b4 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80tex4ht.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive depends on:
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2007.dfsg.2-2 TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.2-2 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2007.dfsg.2-2 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag
texlive recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.25 Debian package management system
ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive is related to:
ii tetex-base 2007.dfsg.2-2 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii tetex-bin 2007.dfsg.2-2 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 1.17 common infrastructure for building
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Di, 07 Apr 2009, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Running 'mktexlsr' on my 1700MHz laptop takes over 1 minute, and
> causes the machine to become sluggy. Yet for some reason it is invoked
> after each texlive package I upgrade. Example:
Yes we know, and this will stay that way.
BUT: On my laptop and even on my very old one that was a problem only on
the *FIRST* invocation. Afterwards the dir entries were in the disk
cache and thus very fast. It is strange that it is not in your case.
> Setting up texlive-lang-hungarian (2007.dfsg.4-1) ...
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Building format(s) --byhyphen /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat.
And here you see the problem: Not calling mktexlsr would make the call
to fmtutil break, and to other things probably, too.
No, there is no way around that.
> So presumably 'mktexlsr' could just be run once at the end of the
> upgrade, with the same effect. Instead, it is run after each package.
No, that does not have the same effect. Sorry, I don't have time nor
energy to explain you the details fo the kpsea library for searching
files in a TEXMF tree, but trust me, it *does* make a difference.
> Thus, by having 'texlive' installed, I have inadvertently created a
> situation where upgrading Debian requires hours of my attention. This
No no no, there are 70+ packages, each would call mktexlsr, each
successive call should not last longer than 1 min, that makes a bit more
than one hour ...
I am closing this bug, it is not anything we can change light-heartly
without breaking other things.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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