* Martin Costabel on Tue, Jun 07, 2005: > Jens N�ckel wrote: > [] >> 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 > [] > > 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.
TETEXDOC.pdf tells some. Hopefully to clarify but probably only to add to the confusion I'll contribute my 2�: There's now 2 new commands texconfig-sys and updmap-sys. Now, for instance, if I install a new font systemwide (I use a self-compiled teTeX but I guess in fink that would be in /sw/etc/texmf.local/fonts/) and add the mappings via updmap-sys the mappings are written to /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg. All works well systemwide and for me as a user *as long as I don't have my own updmap.cfg in ~/.texmf-config/web2c/* created by running updmap (instead of updmap-sys). If the latter is the case I'll have to rerun updmap to make the systemwide installed font available for myself because updmap-sys only changed updmap.cfg in /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/ which is overriden by updmap.cfg in ~/.texmf-config/web2c/. It would be nice if updmap-sys added the mappings to my private updmap.cfg automatically. Perhaps one could even come up with a combination of the different TEXMFVAR and TEXMFSYSVAR (new) to do this. So I'll try to cc this to the tetex list. c -- _B A U S T E L L E N_ lesen! --->> <http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen.html> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
