Bug#683943: luatex: fontconfig overridden by OSFONTDIR in default settings
Package: texlive-luatex
Version: 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1
Severity: normal
As far as I can tell, luatex uses fontconfig to find fonts if no
OSFONTDIR is configured (at least, the binary is linked against
libfontconfig!).
OSFONTDIR is, however, set in the default configuration to
/usr/share/fonts. This setting seems to override the use of
fontconfig, and omits several locations that fontconfig checks by
default, not least per-user fonts in ~/.fonts.
It would seem logical, therefore, to remove the setting of OSFONTDIR
from the default texmf.cnf.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is no way for users to
simply force the use of fontconfig, as kpathsea does not permit a
variable to be unset, and setting OSFONTDIR to the empty string does
not have the desired effect (not least, it makes mkluatexfontdb loop,
but that's a separate bug, which I'll report upstream).
The best I can do as a workaround is to set OSFONTDIR in my own
~/.texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf to the full font path. This is
obviously fragile, as if fontconfig's setting changes, I have to
change my texmf.cnf.
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1609 Aug 5 00:21 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 23 19:05 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 3 09:35 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Mar 30 11:39 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 3 09:35 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 3 09:35 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 3 09:35 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
######################################
Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 rrt rrt 138 Aug 5 14:30 /home/rrt/.texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5840 Aug 5 00:21 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r----- 1 rrt rrt 12220 Jul 19 17:17 /home/rrt/.texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7737 Aug 5 00:21 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Mar 26 2011 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Aug 5 00:21 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
1df66bc319cec731e202eaf39f5d85e1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf
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ii texlive-base 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-1~ubuntu12.04.1
ii texlive-common 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1
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Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.42ubuntu1
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2ubuntu1
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20120115ubuntu3
Versions of packages texlive-luatex is related to:
ii tex-common 3.13~ubuntu12.04.1
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-1~ubuntu12.04.1
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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