Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 19:19 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I think it is not urgent to upload ne wtexlive binararies with this >> > patch as it fails only in som estrange circumstances. Next upload will >> > fix it automatically. >> > >> > Or did I miss something? >> >> No, you are right - it's only under special circumstances that it fails, >> and can easily be fixed manually. > > It fails if TEXMFVAR (=HOME/.texmf-var) does not exist (quite likely) > and VARTEXFONTS is not writable (unlikely for an already working setup). > Creating TEXMFVAR by hand would be the manual fix. > > The only possible problem I see is if we upload a new version of > tex-common with a 'mktex.cnf' enabeling the 'texmfvar', and the admin of > some site decides that VARTEXFONTS is now no longer needed and removes > it. Users without TEXMFVAR would get problems ...
We should add a note about that in tex-common's NEWS.Debian. Okay, I worked along Ralf's older mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2006/05/msg00531.html . add appropriate mktex.cnf in /u/s/texmf/web2c (or /e/texmf/web2c?) Done, in /u/s/texmf/. . change VARTEXFONTS to /tmp/texfonts (also in the policy) Done. . write documentation for NEWS.Debian and README.Debian Done, please read and correct . update (pre|post)inst script Done (postinst, config and templates) . Do we need transition code? Remove saved answers or things like this? What to do if the local admin used a mktex.cnf in /e/texmf/web2c to configure, eg, the MF mode? This would shadow the new mktex.cnf in /u/s/texmf/web2c. Done, db_unregister, and a new note if there's a /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. . test updates and font creation under different circumstances Done, including the case of an existing /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
