Frank Küster wrote: > - on a system with only one TeX user, some fonts (tfm, pfb files) were > installed in TEXMFHOME, but the map files were in TEXMFMAIN (because > in teTeX-2.0.2 updmap wouldn't find map files in TEXMFHOME)
OT: Was that really a problem with map files not being found? I remember that getting updmap to work with fonts in TEXMFHOME was rather tricky in teTeX-2.0.2, but my problems were more concerned with the output locations etc. > - The entries for those map files were correctly in > TEXMFSYSVAR/web2c/updmap.cfg > > - Yet updmap, called by root, did not put the entries from those map > files into pdftex.map. > > Christoph, you write above "updmap called by root". Did you actually > call updmap as root, manually? I ask because we have tried to make > updmap behave as updmap-sys when called by root, but there might be some > errors in the patch. The maintainer scripts should call updmap-sys, and > they do AFAICS. For me, updmap called as root writes to /root/.texmf-var/. Also, I see nothing in the diff between Debian's updmap and the original one that would check for UID or something like that. cheerio ralf