Bug#267567: tetex-bin: update-* scripts should have a destdir option

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 267567 tex-common
found 267567 2.03
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On 27.08.05 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:

> retitle 267567 update-texmf: needs a sane option handling and a destdir option
> thanks
> 
> "Frank Küster" <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> 
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: 2.0.2-19
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Packages that build-depend on tetex-bin sometimes need to change the
> > configuration files, e.g. increase main_memory, as the
> > scalable-cyrfonts package does. Since building is usually done as
> > non-root, they cannot use the update-{texmf,updmap,fmtutil}
> > scripts. It would be nice if this was made possible by adding a
> > --destdir option, allowing to put the changed conffile into a location
> > below the package build directory.
> 
> This is already solved for update-updmap and update-fmtutil.
> update-texmf still lacks such functionality.  Moreover, if you call it
> with an option it does not recognise (like --help...) it goes into an
> endless loop...
> 
reassign, found.

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