TeXLive again

wrobell wrobell at pld-linux.org
Sun Dec 28 02:31:25 CET 2008


On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:36:52PM +0100, Zsolt Udvari wrote:
> > First: you must set TEXMFMAIN environment variable (this maybe isn't
> > error, but would be nice when shouldn't set).
> > Second: it missed *.fmt and I don't know how can I create. This the
> > biggest problem.
> It's done.
> 
> Next problem: sometimes needs to create fonts, and there are few possibilities:
> - create the fonts to $HOME/.texlive-2008 directory - imho this is not
> too good solution
> - create the fonts to /var/lib/texmf (or any other directory) - it's
> the better, but there are problems with this.
> It must be writeable by all users. The idea, that its owner/group is
> 'texmf', and some files of texlive has sgid, doesn't work, because it
> calls 'mkdir', 'cp'.
> 
> What should I do?

that was solved in tetex.spec, isn't it? /var/cache/fonts has sticky bit if
i reckon well.

    wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>


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