I learned from a bad experience that manual changes to files in /opt/local are a bad idea. For one thing, new versions of ports are quite likely to overwrite such changes. It was worse for me: the whole MacPorts arrangement stopped working.
updmap is a command that comes with the teTex package. (Side question: how would I be able to find this out if I recalled only "updmap" and not "teTex? Another side question: is there a way of finding out which commands the package teTex will install in /opt/local/bin, without actually installing it?) To get back to my main question: "man updmap" says "updmap reads a configuration file, updmap.cfg(5)" and I'm assuming updmap.cfg is supposed to be edited by hand---it's a text file. Problem 1: editing by hand a file in /opt/local. Is this wise? Is there any alternative? Will the file be overwritten by a later port? Prolem 2: % slocate updmap.cfg /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg /opt/local/var/macports/software/teTeX/3.0_5/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg so there are two files updmap.cfg files. How do I know which one to edit? Or should I be editing yet another copy? There are a couple of other configuration files in /opt/local that I have edited by hand. I have also done something I don't quite remember about getting some daily maintenance program or perhaps daily updating of some database to work. So what about the overwriting problem? I would like to know what other MacPorts users do. Thanks David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/manual-changes-in--opt-local-tp22056767p22056767.html Sent from the MacPorts - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
