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Bug#607857: texlive-base: don't put files under /usr/local (proposed patch)



On 25.12.10 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
> On 25.12.10 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:

Hi,

> > It is not there, it is in tex-common: I adapted the postinst with
> > loads of debug and what did I found:
> > 
> Well, I expected somthing like that.
> 
> > Sooooooooooooo ... what is the solution? The simple idea would be
> > to call updmap-sys --nohash, but on initial installations that
> > might lead to problems as the psfonts.map etc file generated by
> > updmap might not be present *before* the run.
> > 
> Hmm, there is only one mktexlsr/texhash call in /usr/bin/updmap.
> Hence we could simply run "updmap-sys --nohash" and an additional
> "mktexlsr ...." after it.
> 
I didn't check yet if the ls-R update is needed during the run.

> However I didn't check if an updated ls-R database is needed during
> the updmap-sys run.  In this case we can only patch updmap to update
> only our dist texmf trees...and file an wishlist bug to upstream that
> the texmf trees to be updated during updmap can be specified.
> 
Of course this is non-sense. The normal system admin would expect
that updmap-sys refreshes the ls-R db as needed which would not be
the case after the change.

H.
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