Re: texhash in updmap

Nobuyuki Tsuchimura <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:41:45 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

  Hi,

From: Thomas Esser <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: texhash in updmap
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:13:07 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

  Thank you for consideration.

> > (a) touch output files
> 
> I have a problem with that. If something goes wrong, empty files might
> remain.

In fact, I can't imagine the situation that we don't have output files.
The output files are contained in tetex-texmf-*.tar.gz.
Anyway, I agree that you try to make safer setting.

> What I can offer is to check the existence of the output files on
> startup and not to run texhash in the end. So, for the usual case of

It sounds good. Will you do me a favor?

Regards,
-- Nobuyuki Tsuchimura