From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:17:15 +0200
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > The current texmf.cnf of Debian is completely the same as the one > > upstream teTeX provided, if no local modification files are put in > > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ There is no specific for Debian at all. > > Gosh, read what Manoj's been writing already. > > Manoj's concern is that you happyly trash /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with the > concatenation of /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*.cnf and do not care about the > system administrator's actions. Yes, we care about the system administrator's actions with the concatnation. > * The admin has a system in place to administer the boxes in a lab. > > * There are TeX components in use which are not provided by Debian > (say, ACM's conference proceeding styles) > > * These are installed in /random/path/texmf (/random is NFS > mounted) > > * The in-house system takes care of updating every machine's > texmf.cnf files to point to this new path. (And no, this is not a > Debian-only shop, last time I looked there still wasn't a Debian > GNU/Irix distribution -- there's life beyond Debian, you know?) In this case, administrator should modify TEXINPUTS.latex in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf and run update-texmf once. Generated texmf.cnf should be the same as an old one. > Now image this: there's security upgrade for tetex-bin and the poor > fool has a cronjob that installs it. After its installation, the local > texmf.cnf is trashed. the local texmf.cnf is not trashed if administrator acted as above, only once. Am I missing something? BTW, in this case it is much better to do something; ln -s /random/path/texmf/tex/latex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/NFS then there is no need to modify texmf.cnf at all. (though I have no experience with NFS mounted directory) Thanks, 2003-4-22(Tue) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
