Your message dated Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:35:11 +0900 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line CLosing this bug has caused the Debian Bug report #499622, regarding User configuration to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tex-common Version: 1.11.2 Severity: normal Hi Reuben, thanks for the report. I'm resending this to the BTS so that we won't forget about it. I put your name in the From of the e-mail so that the BTS correctly records you as the submitter, I'm in the Sender:. I hope this works and is okay for you. Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > There seem to be conflicting information on the page > > http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/TeX-on-Debian/ch2.html#s-sec-core-config-files > > First, it says: > > The TeX binaries are built to look for texmf.cnf (the master config > file for TeX and Metafont) in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (or > $HOME/.texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf if it exists). > > But later on: > > if a user wants to maintain their own texmf.cnf, they can put it into > TEXMFCONFIG/web2c and must manually edit it. However, in order for it > to be found, they need to set an environment variable [1]: > > export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c: > > And it seems to be the second version that is true: if I don't set > TEXMFCNF, latex doesn't read my settings from ~/.texmf-config. > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | pirate, n. a politician of the seas (Bierce) -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, this bug is fixed since long, the onlyh problem is that the documents on people.debian.org are outdated. The correct document is to be found int /usr/share/doc/tex-common/ and does not state these conflicting things. Closing this bug (and will care for cleaning up the mess on people.debian.org) Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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