Bug#709986: texlive-base: "Use of uninitialized value"

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:

> On 29.05.13 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> The patch is quite simple:
>> diff --git a/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper b/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
>> index e8f3ec9..7fc5223 100644
>> --- a/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
>> +++ b/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
>> @@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ sub main {
>>        usage();
>>        exit 1;
>>      }
>> +    # set TEXMFVAR and TEXMFSYSVAR to something completely absurd
>> +    # so that we always find either the system provided config file
>> +    # as distributed in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist, or, if the
>> +    # admin decided to override that, a copy in TEXMFSYSCONFIG
>> +    # but *not* the one we have created at some point in history
>> +    # in TEXMF(SYS)VAR
>> +    $ENV{"TEXMFVAR"} = "/does/hopefully/not/exists/on/any/system";
>> +    $ENV{"TEXMFSYSVAR"} = "/does/hopefully/not/exists/on/any/system";
>>      if ($prg =~ m/^all$/i) {
>>        if ($newpaper !~ /^(a4|letter)$/) {
>>          # we cannot deal with that for now, only a4|letter supported for
>> 
> I'm pretty sure you'll get another bug for this code. As the path
> above does not corespond to the FHS is should work anyway. ;-)

Maybe it would be more elegant to do something like this

+    $ENV{"TEXMFVAR"} = "$TEXMFMAIN";
+    $ENV{"TEXMFSYSVAR"} = "$TEXMFMAIN";

(or whatever the current name for our tree is, and probably needs to be
expanded by kpsewhich, not the shell).

Regards, Frank