Bug#607351: texlive-binaries: texdoc aliasing sometimes doesn't work

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

tags 607351 fixed-upstream
thanks

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr> wrote:

> Le 04/06/2011 01:59, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard a écrit :
>> Actually, I think I don't even need a new kpathsea search PATH, I can directly
>> consult the value of $TEXMF and then just append texdoc/texdoc.cnf. This would
>> be compatible with the current locations and would also find configuration files
>> in TEXMFDIST or TEXMFSYSCONFIG for example, which, IIUC, would solve your problem.
>> 
> I went ahead and implemented that in texdoc 0.81, just uploaded to TeX Live. Now
> texdoc finds its configuration files in $TEXMF/texdoc in the order prescribed by
> the regular precedence between texmf trees.
>
> Which means the default configuration file should be installed in TEXMFDIST if
> TEXMFMAIN happens to have higher precedence than TEXMFLOCAL (as in the case in
> upstream TeX Live).
>
> I hope it fixes the problem.

yes, I think so.  I'm marking this as fixed upstream, however, we need
to make sure when TL 2011 is packaged that it actually works with our
configuration. Maybe we've already mis-patched the file locations.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)