Re: 2.99.8: updmap output directories

[email protected] (Frank Küster) Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:25:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lars Engebretsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> The man page for updmap is not consistent with the behaviour of updmap:
>
> 1. VARTEXMF in the man page should be TEXMFVAR

By the way, why the renaming? It was kind of annoying for packaging
upgradable Packages in Debian.

(The reason is: When we started using VARTEXMF with some of our
intermediate 2.0.2 versions, we had to use quite some effort to force
this setting to be included in texmf.cnf, which on Debian is in /etc/
and therefore in the realm of the local administrator, and cannot simply
be overwritten by package installation scripts. After the name change,
we would have needed to do this again with the new name. Instead I chose
to patch the executables to continue using VARTEXMF).

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer