On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:28:53PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > > Sadly, IIRC, it looks like context uses a single database file under > > texmf-var, although i would have to check this (currently on a train).
I did some digging. Two pieces of good news. ConTeXt puts one hash per texmf tree under $LOCALBASE/share/texmf-var/... But also, due breakage in their selfauto code, the only reason that hashing took so long and used so much memory, was because we were hashing teh whole of /usr; including my ports tree, src tree, ... By fixing the texmflocal path manually, the process is fairly quick (10 seconds on my amd64) and uses about 25MB of RAM. This could even run on zaurus if you are sick. Given this, how about this: - fix texmfcnf.lua and the bogus selfauto path. - take all context macros and bundle them into their own texmf package: texlive_texmf-context. - In this new package: @exec mtxrun --generate (context's equivilent to mklsr). This means only people who want to use context do the extra hashing step. I find this the least offensive solution. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
