Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 17:51 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> 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/.
>
> Great! A minor suggestion, which would simplify moving back to a
> global font cache:
>
> Index: mktex.cnf
> ===================================================================
> --- mktex.cnf (revision 1476)
> +++ mktex.cnf (working copy)
> @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
> +# global font cache
> +#: ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts}
> +# per user font cache
> : ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:texmfvar}
> #: ${MODE=ljfour}
> #: ${BDPI=600}
Yes, good idea. I checked it in with a further comment:
+# global font cache, also change VARTEXFONTS in 05TeXMF.cnf
+#: ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts}
+# per user font cache
> BTW, what happens if one uses 'appendonlydir' and 'texmfvar' together?
> In my tests I had always used only 'texmfvar'.
Nothing that I'd noticed... I guess you get a (useless) sticky bit in
your TEXMFVAR, but in the case of /tmp/texfonts it might have some minor
usefulness.
> Suggestions:
>
> Index: NEWS.Debian
> ===================================================================
> --- NEWS.Debian (revision 1476)
> +++ NEWS.Debian (working copy)
[...]
> Index: README.Debian
> ===================================================================
> --- README.Debian (revision 1476)
> +++ README.Debian (working copy)
[...]
> Shall I commit these changes?
Yes, please, very good.
>> . test updates and font creation under different circumstances
>>
>> Done, including the case of an existing /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf.
>
> Could you share how you did these tests? Thanks.
- log into pbuilder chroot
- install adduser; adduser test with password "bla"
- su - test
- cp array.dtx into the chroot, run latex array.dtx and watch how
"dvips array.dvi" creates fonts in /home/test/.texmf-var/
- logout to become root again, "rm -r /home/test/.texmf-var", "chmod a-w
/home/test"
- su - test
- run dvips again and watch how it creates fonts in /tmp/texfonts.
Just not creating a user and run as root does not work - it thinks my
home is /home/frank and, since I'm root, simply creates /home/frank
inside the chroot and subsequently /home/frank/.texmf-var/, even if I
removed the write bits from /home for everybody...
With an existing /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf, I just tested the
installation and got a debconf note; I didn't care to try what happened
if I ignore it.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
