Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > reopen 298315 > retitle 298315 tetex-bin: change from fmtutil to fmtutil-sys breaks depending > packages' maintainer scripts > thanks [...] > The reason is in the new title.
So, longer version: In order to allow users to easily create their own formats, fmtutil now puts its output into subdirectories of $HOME, unless it is called as fmtutil-sys. The problem with this is that all packages that call fmtutil in their postinst scripts will create format files in /root/.texmf-var/web2c instead of /var/lib/texmf/web2c. By the way, the unsetting of $HOME in postinst scripts, as I did to address #294197 does not help - if $HOME is unset, it simply would write into /.texmf-var/, which is even more ugly. Even if we do not plan to bring teTeX-3.0 into sarge, I fear it would be a hard piece of work to make all depending packages use fmtutil-sys. Therefore I think we should use a Debian-specific patch to the effect that if fmtutil is run by root, it automatically behaves as if fmtutil-sys was called (unless instructed otherwise). I hope it is safe to use something like "test `id -u` = 0". In this case we could simply apply such a patch: --- texk/tetex/fmtutil.orig 2005-03-11 17:19:52.000000000 +0100 +++ texk/tetex/fmtutil 2005-03-11 17:19:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ # --cnffile file set configfile for fmtutil # --fmtdir directory set destination directory for format files ############################################################################### - +############################################################################### +# +# Debian-specific options: +# --root-home Don't use TEXMFSYSVAR, TEXMFSYSCONFIG even when +# called by root +# +############################################################################### ############################################################################### # program history: # Sa Jan 15 18:13:46 CET 2005 avoid multiple variable assignments in one statement @@ -83,6 +89,19 @@ cnf=fmtutil.cnf # name of the config file +if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then + if [ "$1" = "--root-home" ]; then + echo + echo "$progname: Option --root-home given," + echo "generating formats in /root/.texmf-var." + echo + else + TEXMFVAR="`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR`" + TEXMFCONFIG="`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG`" + export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG + fi +fi + ############################################################################### # cleanup() # clean up the temp area and exit with proper exit status --- texk/tetex/fmtutil.man.orig 2005-03-11 17:19:52.000000000 +0100 +++ texk/tetex/fmtutil.man 2005-03-11 17:23:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ (not implemented, just for compatibility) .IP "\fB--test\fP" (not implemented, just for compatibility) +.PP +.SH "DEBIAN-SPECIFIC CHANGES" +.PP +In Debian. \fBfmtutil\fP acts on the system-wide format files if it is +called by root (actually, by numerical UID 0). If you want to create +user-specific formats for root, use +.PP +.IP "\fB\-\-root\-home\fP" +Don't use TEXMFSYSVAR, TEXMFSYSCONFIG even when called by root. .PP .SH "FILES" .PP Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
