Bug#1004666: marked as done (Unable to set TEXMFAUXTREES in texlive)
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regarding Unable to set TEXMFAUXTREES in texlive
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Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2020.20210202-3
I have a texmf tree that I plan to deploy in a *.deb package using a private
company-wide debian repository.
In postinst, I'm expecting to be able to add my tree to the TEXMFAUXTREES:
$ sudo tlmgr conf auxtrees add /usr/share/texlive/texmf-mycompany
Then I confirm it was added
$ tlmgr conf auxtrees
List of auxiliary texmf trees:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-mycompany
I can also confirm this in the texmf.cnf:
$ cat /usr/share/texlive/texmf.cnf
TEXMFAUXTREES = /usr/share/texlive/texmf-mycompany,
However, it is not applied:
$ kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFAUXTREES
{}
Further inspection shows /usr/share/texlive/texmf.cnf is not read by texlive:
$ kpsewhich -all texmf.cnf
/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
$ kpsewhich -show-path texmf.cnf
/etc/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c://share/texmf/web2c
If support for /usr/share/texlive/texmf.cnf was removed to ensure tlmgr doesn't
conflict with apt, there should be an alternative provided so private package
maintainers can deploy trees.
These are the texmf directories currently supported:
TEXMFLOCAL /usr/local/share/texmf
TEXMFAUXTREES {}
TEXMFDIST /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist
TEXMFHOME $HOME/texmf
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I found the answer.
In /etc/texmf/texmf.d, deploy a*.cnf file with contents
TEXMFAUXTREES = /usr/share/texlive/texmf-mycompany,
Then run update-texmf to regenerate `/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf`
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