Bug#390349: Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 390349 texlive-binaries
# it has /usr/bin/mktexmf
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On 30.09.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

> clone 388399 -1
> retitle -1 Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories
> severity -1 important
> submitter -1 Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>
> stop
> 
> Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

http://bugs.debian.org/390349

> >> So somewhere, there is a very, very wrong assumption that it's
> >> ok to use a fixed, user-invariant path under /tmp for writing
> >> out fonts.
> >
> > [...] Why should it be more wrong to use a user-invariant path in
> > /tmp than a user-invariant path in /var?  Note that we cannot use
> > directories created with mktemp or so, because it's not possible
> > to pass on the directory name from the process that creates the
> > dir, to the one that creates the font and to the one that uses
> > it.
> 
> But you are right, Steve, that it might cause problems.  I make
> this a separate bug, and I'm already investigating a solution.
> 
I'm pretty sure the bug is still open -> reassigning.

H.
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