Eythan Weg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Texdoc will not search effectively with say > texdoc -s pdftex > I had to patch with > > --- /usr/bin/texdoc 2005-03-23 19:01:08.000000000 -0500 > +++ /usr/bin/texdoc.orig 2005-03-17 09:47:45.000000000 -0500 > @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ > do > case $mode in > search) > - find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -follow -type > f -print | > + find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -type f -print | > egrep $name > continue > ;; > > > because in debian the main doc directory is a > symbolic link.
Thanks for spotting this. An alternative would be to change the patch to /usr/share/doc/texmf, but I think follow is better: There are some add-on packages that install their documentation in /usr/share/doc/$package with symlinks in /usr/share/doc/texmf/somewhere. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
