<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear everyone,</div><div>I reported a small issue (see quoted text, end of this email) to MacTex but it was the wrong place, as I later noticed, so I forward now the issue to you as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Please check the presence of “Thumbs.db” files in the final TexLive distro before release, they are useless to every non-Windows user.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Olaf Marzocchi</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><div>Inizio messaggio inoltrato:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Da: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Richard Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@math.uoregon.edu">koch@math.uoregon.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Oggetto: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Re: [mactex-support] Request from Olaf Marzocchi about Thumbs.db in the MacTex distro??</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Data: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">18 maggio 2014 00:25:43 CEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>A: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:olaf@marzocchi.net">olaf@marzocchi.net</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">MacTeX Support <<a href="mailto:mactex-support@tug.org">mactex-support@tug.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><br>Olaf,<br><br>It may help to know how the TeX Live portion of MacTeX is constructed. When it is time<br>to make this piece, I rename /usr/local to /usr/local-temp on my machine. Then I install<br>TeX Live from the tlpretest server (see <a href="http://tug.org">tug.org</a> for details of the pretest). This provides<br>a fresh /usr/local containing only the installed final pretest version of TeX Live.<br><br>Then a run a build script which copies /usr/local to a folder named root/usr/local in the<br>MacTeX-TeXLive build folder on my machine. Finally I run Apple’s PackageMaker,<br>which creates an install package, pointing this program to the “root” folder and saying,<br>in essence, “make an install package from this image.”<br><br>A consequence is that the MacTeX version of TeX Live is essentially an exact copy of<br>what you’d get by installing TeX Live yourself using the TeX Live install script. This<br>install script allows users to set a few items before installing and I set these items<br>in a Mac-Friendly way. For example, instead of looking for local extensions in<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~/texmf<br><br>TeX Live from MacTeX looks in<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~/Library/texmf<br><br>Consequently, the thumb.db files don’t really come from MacTeX, but instead from<br>TeX Live. I don’t have easy access to the 2013 version, but we are in the process of<br>building MacTeX-2014, so I can easily look at “root” from installing the current<br>TeX Live 2014, and the two Thumb.db files exist this year as well. <br><br>According to Wikipedia, these are “Windows thumbnail cache files.” I don’t have<br>a windows machine, but no doubt the authors of those two pieces of documentation<br>wrote on a Windows machine, and uploaded their documentation to CTAN, where it was<br>picked up by TeX Live.<br><br>Feel free to report this to the TeX Live team, by going to the appropriate spot at <a href="http://tug.org">http://tug.org</a>.<br>Right now the team is pretty busy preparing the new release.<br><br>Dick Koch<br><br><br>On May 17, 2014, at 11:09 AM, <a href="mailto:olaf@marzocchi.net">olaf@marzocchi.net</a> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Support requested by: Olaf Marzocchi<br>About: Thumbs.db in the MacTex distro??<br>Computer: Hackintosh<br>MacOS X: 10.9.3<br>Installer problem: no<br>.dmg version date: <br>.dmg file size: <br>Downloaded from: <br>Application problem: no<br>Which application: <br><br><br>Question:<br><br>$ mdfind Thumbs.db<br>/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-course/Graphics/Thumbs.db<br>/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfwin/Thumbs.db<br><br>You left some spurious files around.<br>The files have root:wheel ownership, therefore were placed there by the MacTex installer.<br><br>Regards<br>OM<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>