Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I am not sure now. >> 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. Got me. We patch fmtutil to do this (it has a new option --root-home to allow to create private formats for root, although I consider that kind of insane), but not updmap. The questions to Christoph are still interesting. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer