On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
Hi there,
Since Debian started using texlive, I cannot get mktexlsr to index
my personal texmf tree in ~/.etc/texmf. I have set $TEXMFHOME to
this path (and also tried it with $HOME/texmf, which is the
default), but when I run mktexlsr, it just skips the directory.
Not all directories in TEXMF use the ls-R files. Look for TEXMFDBS in the
(debian generated) texmf.cnf file. By default, only the entries in TEXMF
that have the "!!" (use only ls-R) prefix are used for TEXMFDBS.
The source of the problem seems to be kpsewhich:
kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R
this does not include $HOME at all.
What am I doing wrong? How can I get kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R to
honour $TEXMFHOME again?
You can add TEXMFHOME to the TEXMFDBS list in the source configuration
file and regenerate texmf.cnf.
Are you sure you need this? Unless your $HOMETEXMF is on a network server
or you have lots of files there, the overhead of ls-R searches probably
exceeds the cost of direct filesystem searches.
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