Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-20 Thread Matthew Swift
Ian Jackson writes: > > Matt Swift writes: > > > > # 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 us

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
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 > "te

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-12 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: kpathsea Version: 2.6-1 The presence of an up-to-date ls-R database, while not necessary, drastically improves the efficiency of the TeX system. The kpathsea package should create one on installation and have cron maintain it. All packages that install into the /usr/lib/texmf tree should