retitle 366907 Checking configuration files does not work properly severity 366907 normal thanks
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:30 -0400, Liam M. Healy wrote: > Thanks for the pointer to tex-common, the separate purge and > reinstallation seems to have fixed the problem. Welcome. I am downgrading instead of closing this bug, since I can reproduce this part here: > I do not recall being > asked about 05TexMF.cnf; I usually look at the differences if I do not > have a good feeling that the changes are benign and that the old > configuration is acceptable. I started with a clean sid-pbuilder. After that I did the following # apt-get install tex-common # apt-get remove tex-common # vi /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf # egrep 'TEXMFDIST =' /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf % TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-dist % TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive} # apt-get install tex-common # egrep 'TEXMFDIST =' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf % TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-dist % TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive} # ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ total 44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6711 May 13 17:19 05TeXMF.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 May 13 17:15 15Plain.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3410 May 13 17:15 45TeXinputs.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1240 May 13 17:15 55Fonts.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 May 13 17:15 65BibTeX.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689 May 13 17:15 75DviPS.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2684 May 13 17:15 85Misc.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333 May 13 17:15 90TeXDoc.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6485 May 13 17:15 95NonPath.cnf Even though I modified 05TeXMF.cnf, I was /not asked/ about this during reinstallation of tex-common! Even though the settings in 05TeXMF.cnf would /break/ the system, since TEXMFDIST is not set, the checks in tex-common's postinst did /not detect/ this! What is going wrong here? BTW, in addition I got # ls -l /var/cache/fonts/ total 12 drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 pk drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 source drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 May 10 13:07 tfm without any questions asked. I thought the default should be world writable to get things like pbuilder/bbuild correct. I admit I didn't follow the discussions on that problem very closely, though. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]