Bug#412242: tetex-bin: mktexpk places some fonts in the current directory
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retitle 412242 fonts generated upon format creation are placed in TEXMFSYSVAR
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Sergei Ivanov <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 17:12, Frank Küster wrote:
>> /var/lib/texmf/fonts is and never was supposed to contain pk fonts, if I
>> remember correctly.
>>
>> So maybe we should rather find out how these fonts got there. If it is
>> something that might have happened to more users, we may need to cater
>> for it, if it's just a special case on your system, maybe not.
>
> They are placed there by fmtutil-sys. To reproduce:
> - uncomment the "cyrtex" line in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf
> - run "fmtutil-sys --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf --all"
> (everything as root).
>
> This creates a bunch of .tfm and 600 DPI .pk fonts in /var/lib/texmf/fonts.
> Then when a non-root user needs these .pk fonts at another resolution,
> they are created in the current directory.
Yes, I can reproduce this, and it still happens in texlive 2005. I
don't know about 2007 yet, but I fear it hasn't changed.
I didn't have time to look at the details, but from memory the rules for
font creation are like this:
- put them in TEXMFVAR, i.e. ~/.texmf-var/, if possible
- put them into /tmp/texfonts as a fallback
Now fmtutil-sys should not create the fonts in ~root/.texmf-var,
naturally, and the question is: If fmtutil would put the fonts in the
fallback, /tmp/texfonts, where they are erased upon reboot, would that
cause any problems?
I guess not, since either the information is included in the format
dump, or it can be recreated by a user who runs the format.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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