Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >> A system-wide installation, if done cleanly, would be much easier >> (as plink pointed out). If you (or 'texexec --make' to generate the >> formats) ask kpathsea where to put the format files, it'll give you >> a directory in TEXMFHOME, so a per user install. But how do you ask >> kpathsea the correct question so that it'll tell you where they >> should go for a system-wide install? >> > you can't and i remember asking for such a feature but ... ;
Can you point me to this discussion? I think it doesn't need more as what fmtutil-sys, updmap-sys and texconfig-sys do before calling fmtutil, updmap or texconfig, respectively: v=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR` c=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG` TEXMFVAR="$v" TEXMFCONFIG="$c" export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG exec updmap ${1+"$@"} However, it would be probably more elegant and context-like to not have texexec and texexec-sys, but rather a commandline switch - in this case the handling would have to be done in the perl (or ruby?) scripts, which is somewhat trickier. > the only > way to figure that out is to check all format paths and take the first > one that fits; unfortunalty the tetex paths are rather messy so it's > hard to predict in what permutation of home, usr, share, sys, opt * > local * tex, TeX, teTeX, whatever * texmf, texmflocal, texmf-local, > texmf-teTeX, texmf-dis, texmf.local, texmf-whocares * web2c, > web2c/engine etc etc a format may end up; I'm not sure what you mean. The default TEXMF path for teTeX (and I think also for TeXlive) is TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST} where the first three are per-user, the others are system trees. An explanation about installing does not need to know whether, for example, TEXMFLOCAL is called texmf.local or texmf-local or /usr/local/share/texmf. The only problem might be that some users change the order or the trees, but that's not a big problem if we suggest to use the default path. > this is further complicated > by the fact that kpse has to do some guessing about where it's > configuration files are (web2c, etc, home, nowhere), This is only a problem if people have more than one texmf.cnf - is this actually the case? I don't think I ever heard of that. > what trees make > sense, etc etc; and, yes, some of the paths are hard coded in the > binaries, so relocating is tricky ... isn't it magic that tex still > runs -) AFAIK only the search path for texmf.cnf is hard-coded, and that can't be avoided. On the other hand, no one ever approached me and requested a relocation: What would you want, and in which cases? TIA, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context