On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:51:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> set to /var/lib/texmf. Here, "other" means the format files and logs
> of format generation, the ls-R file for TEXMFMAIN, and the map files
> generated by updmap.
TEXMFMAIN is also "static" if you set TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG to
something else. I don't see a need to update the ls-R file of TEXMFMAIN
after the (package) installation.
> - All configuration files must be in /etc because of the FHS, and we
> achieve this mainly by creating symlinks from TEXMFMAIN to appropriate
> places below /etc/texmf. There's one more peculiarity: To allow for
To me, these symlinks are just confusing. From all files in TEXMFMAIN,
only texmf.cnf might need tweeking after the installation. So, if I were
you, I'd
- change the compile time setting of TEXMFCNF to /etc/texmf/web2c
- patch "make install" to make sure that the texmf.cnf file gets
installed there
- set TEXMFVAR, TEXMFCONFIG and VARTEXFONTS before compilation in
texk/kpathsea/texmf.in via some patch file
> policy-compliant installation of additional font packages and packages
> providing additional formats, updmap.cfg and fmtutil.cnf are generated
> files sitting in /var/lib/texmf/web2c, and the "real" configuration
Just a note: these files belong into the texmf tree pointed at by
TEXMFCONFIG.
> files from the point of view of users and maintainers of
> add-on-packages are in /etc/texmf/{fmtutil.d,updmap.d} with Debian
> scripts generating the files in VARTEXMF.
With teTeX-3.0, modified config files should not be in TEXMFVAR, but
in TEXMFCONFIG.
> - additionally, we are considering to add support for one more tree
> between TEXMFLOCAL and TEXMFVAR, used for Debian packages that want to
> override files from teTeX by providing newer versions and that would
> have a faster release cycle.
That's just fine. Just make an additional dist-tree (choose whatever
name you want, e.g. variablke TEXMFDEBDIST) and set it up in texmf.in
before TEXMFDIST.
> It seems to me now that these locations are kind of orthogonal to what
> you originally intended, so perhaps we should use different names.
I don't think that it is orthogonal. Some of those settings are just
in line...
Thomas
