Hi Paul, > o When I do "texconfig pdftex paper letter", it changes the file > [some texmf directory]/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex, but > it doesn't update pdflatex.fmt (and others). The change does not
That is true and a bug. texconfig should recreate the formats when updating pdftexconfig.tex. > o In tetex-src-beta-2.99.0.20041023.tar.gz, there are some files > with unusual permissions 600, 640, 444. I can't see why this would > be intentional. (No big deal, though.) Fixed. I still pack the archives by hand and I did run some checks on the permissions. Hm... I should write a script which makes sure that such things are no longer overseen. > o Can I suggest that when you create the tar files, you use the gnu > tar options --owner=root --group=staff, so that if we unpack the files Yes, I can try that (using --group=root as I don't have the staff group). Thanks for your suggestions! Thomas
