Matthew Swift writes: > I recommend that a script like the following, called something like > 'maintain-texmf', be included with kpathsea.deb, run during its > postinst, and that a link be placed to the script in cron.daily or > cron.weekly. (I do not feel strongly about the (new) user group > "texmf"; it's only what I prefer.)
The convention in Debian seems to be that these kind of things are all called update-<foo>, so update-texmf would probably be better ... > # ensure proper permissions and ownership > chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS > chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS Our packaging guidelines say that the things should be owned by root.root in general. Is there a good reason to use a new group ? Ian.
