Jens N�ckel wrote:
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It gets better: now I have one more updmap.cfg file on my machines with
fink dating from before Tiger, this time in
/sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
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I decided to send this because it also contains an error message about a
missing map file 'antt.map' that I encountered before (and it shows how
this gets fixed), and you can see more details about my configuration.
I'm perfectly happy with everything because now the map files on the
last four lines above are doing what I want them to. But maybe someone
will figure out why those outdated updmap.cfg files are still around at
all...
There is something else that's fishy, about the versions of
/sw/bin/updmap -- it looks like my freshly installed fink on Tiger
actually has an outdated updmap, and no executable for updmap-sys at
all. But I'll report back on that after I try a re-install of
tetex-texmf later...
You are confirming that there is a serious problem with the way tetex
(or at least Fink's tetex, but what I read on other mailing lists,
similar things happen on GWtex) handles its config files. I suspect
there is some philosophy behind it to respect the user's modified config
files, but in this case there should be an option to purge everything,
or at least everything outside of the user's home directory.
The fact that TeX installs and lets you install the same things at 15
different places and doesn't tell you where they are and in which order
they will be used is something we cannot do anything about. That's just
TeX's old and chaotic history. But Fink packages need to be cleaner
about this as they are right now. It is not quite clear what needs to be
purged when a new Fink package is installed and if dpkg's ConfFiles
mechanism would be of any help there, but something needs to be done.
--
Martin
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