[tex-live] fmtutil-sys, updmap-sys scripts

[Frank Küster]

Daniel Flipo <daniel.flipo at univ-lille1.fr> wrote:

> Hi Thomas, hi all,
>
> It seems that the new scripts fmtutil-sys and updmap-sys in TL2005
> no longer take into account the TEXMFLOCAL branch of the TEXMF tree.
[...]
> # kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> that's fine, _but_ when I launch fmtutil-sys, it uses the standard
> /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> This is a consequence of your redinition of
> TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG as TEXMFSYSVAR TEXMFSYSCONFIG, so TEXMFLOCAL
> is hidden!
[...]
> So, my questions are:
>
> 1) Could you think of a clean patch for fmtutil-sys and updmap-sys
>     so that they pick up their config files where kpsewhich expects
>     them to do so?

Why not simply unset TEXMFVAR, TEXMFCONFIG and TEXMFHOME in the -sys
variants? 

> 2) I always wondered why TEXMLOCAL was put behind TEXMF(SYS)VAR
>     in TL standard texmf.cnf. Wouldn't it be more logical to search
>     -- first the personnal tree of the user (TEXMFHOME and co),

With TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG being part of "and co".  That's the whole
point of having TEXMFVAR plus TEXMFSYSVAR.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer