Package: kpathsea Version: 2.6-1 The presence of an up-to-date ls-R database, while not necessary, drastically improves the efficiency of the TeX system. The kpathsea package should create one on installation and have cron maintain it. All packages that install into the /usr/lib/texmf tree should rebuild the database at the postinst stage.
I recommend that a script like the following, called something like 'maintain-texmf', be included with kpathsea.deb, run during its postinst, and that a link be placed to the script in cron.daily or cron.weekly. (I do not feel strongly about the (new) user group "texmf"; it's only what I prefer.) #!/bin/sh # maintain-texmf: maintain the kpathsea ls-R database TEXROOT=/usr/lib/texmf DIRS="/usr/local/lib/texmf $TEXROOT" # rebuild the ls-R database ls --dereference --recursive $DIRS > $TEXROOT/ls-R # ensure proper permissions and ownership chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS
