Bug#607857: tex-common: Hard-coded path in proposed patch
On 30.12.10 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
Hi,
> Most of our scripts (the ones written for Debian) expect TEXMFDIST to
> be /u/s/texmf-texlive and TEXMFSYSVAR to be /v/l/texmf.
>
> Looking through the whole trigger code I see many instances of that.
>
> To make it completely clear: Debian TeX Live does not support
> moving of arbitrary trees by changing variables in texmf.cnf.
>
Not good[TM]. I'll open a wishlist bug to have that changed. Should
be that hard to source /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf at the beginning of these
scripts and set the values of TEXMFMAIN, TEXMFDIST etc. only the
variables are empty after /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf has been sourced.
H.
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