Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >>> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >>> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >>> manually. What should I do in this case? >

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-07 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >> manually. What should I do in this case? > > [...] > >> - let libpaper'

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin > might have changed the default paper for one particular binary > manually. What should I do in this case? [...] > - let libpaper's setting overwrite everything: Pr

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 03 Dez 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > Can the TeX configuration files source other configuration files? Some can some cannot. > If this is the case, can't each of the separate configuration files > source a single file which defines only the papersize? This way No, that is definitely impossi

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Are there any other options? Currently, the configuration files in > question are all conffiles; we'd have to change that, too, I guess. I > have not followed this field in the last years; I guess ucf is still the > method of choice i

Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I had thought that I had understood it. But somehow I'm again running into problems when it comes to manipulating configuration files with maintainer scripts. TeXLive contains many binaries that change output depending on the papersize used. Each of them has a configuration file which - amon