I tried this out (in the context of LilyPond, which I was not familiar with, but which looks like a great tool! kudos for making this available via cygwin!!!).
I found that the setup process for texmf-base created a file (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt) with less-than-optimal permissions. The file /usr/bin/fmtutil (supplied by tetex-beta it seems, so Jan may not be able to address this) creates some temporary files in the directory pointed to by $TMP. When it's finished, it `mv`'s them into place at /usr/share/texmf/web2c. On a Windows 2000 machine, the default location for the $TMP directory is actually a TEMP directory underneath of each user's personal W2K profile (documents&settings) directory. This directory only has read access for the user himself and for System and Administrators. A `mv` command doesn't adjust file permissions to match the directory it's being copied into (at least on NT/w2k/XP), whereas a `cp` command does. Which means that when the texmf-base package used fmtutil to create the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt, the file permissions were such that only the installing user could read it. So, when I tried to test out lilypond (running as a different user than my administrative account, which was used to install these files), it failed. I dug down and realized that the perms on these web2c files were wrong, so I fixed 'em, and then figured out why. Whoever is maintaining tetex-beta, would you please change the two places in fmtutil where it performs a `mv`, so it instead performs a `cp` followed by an appropriate `rm`? Thanks, --Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RFP: texmf As announced earlier, I'd like to contribute a set of texmf packages from teTeX that match contrib/tetex-beta. Its previous incarnation received some positive comments already.
