Hi,
masters of dh_installtex,
Vincent Danjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank Küster wrote:
Vincent Danjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I only have a few .sty that I cuurently install in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latex-utils/ (will be latex-compile/)
And in my postinst, I use dh_installtex
Do you need to register map files, new formats, and new languages
with TeX? That's the purpose of dh_installtex. Otherwise just call
mktexlsr (or mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf/ if you install only there).
I just need to call mktexlsr. Previously (the package exists for a long
time even if it was not in Debian), I called manually mktexlsr.
Then, I switched to dh_installtex that installs several sanity checks
(is libkpathsea configured ?, ...)
The drawback is that update-updmap, update-language and update-fmtutil
are called whereas my package does not need them (and that mktexlsr is
called without any argument, so all dirs are checked).
I would prefer to stick with dh_installtex (so that improvment in this
script will automatically benefit to my package). But if you think it is
not a good think, I will go back with manual invocation of
dh_installtex.
Hm, I think that it's good to have those checks, but only if they are
needed. They are not needed if you depend on tetex-bin |
texlive-base-bin, since in this case it's guaranteed that mktexlsr
actually works (libkpathsea is configured etc.). But there may be
packages which install TeX input files, but do not depend on a TeX
system (instead only Recommend or Suggest).
Another possibility would be to improve dh_installtex, so that it better
manages simple latex package. Perhaps new options to remove
update-updmap, update-language and/or update-fmtutil calls. And a scan
of the package to call mktexlsr only on directories present in the
package. Would you be interested by this kind of developments ?
I'm not familiar with dh_installtex code - would it be easy to add an
option, so that only the mktexlsr call is introduced into maintainer
scripts? Should we provide an option to add directories to the mktexlsr
call, so that only the directories where files have been installed are
updated? This could speed up things considerably, and there's no need
to update the font cache or TEXMFSITE, or a possibly large TEXMFLOCAL
when installing a couple of files in TEXMFMAIN.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
