On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 19:19 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it is not urgent to upload ne wtexlive binararies with this > > patch as it fails only in som estrange circumstances. Next upload will > > fix it automatically. > > > > Or did I miss something? > > No, you are right - it's only under special circumstances that it fails, > and can easily be fixed manually.
It fails if TEXMFVAR (=HOME/.texmf-var) does not exist (quite likely) and VARTEXFONTS is not writable (unlikely for an already working setup). Creating TEXMFVAR by hand would be the manual fix. The only possible problem I see is if we upload a new version of tex-common with a 'mktex.cnf' enabeling the 'texmfvar', and the admin of some site decides that VARTEXFONTS is now no longer needed and removes it. Users without TEXMFVAR would get problems ... cheerio ralf
