[tex-live] files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 20 12:09:11 CEST 2010


On 20/08/2010, Edd Barrett <vext01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18:37AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>  > On Do, 19 Aug 2010, Karl Berry wrote:
>  > > Neither of them are *package* independent.  If you let your users choose
>  > > which packages are installed, e.g., which fonts, then your map file
>  > > won't be accurate.  OTOH, the extra entries won't cause any harm that I
>  > > can think of.
>  >
>  > Yes, exactely. Please take care not to mess that up. Last time you installed
>  > the config.ps and updmap.cfg file as distributed but not all fonts
>  > were installed.
>  >
>  > *IF* you have several different packages (like we do have in Debian),
>  > you *HAVE* to have an automatism that activates/deactivates the map file
>  > in updmap.cfg and calls updmap-sys afterwards.
>  >
>  > This is done in TL proper within tlmgr, and in Debian in the postinst of
>  > the packages, or better now triggered automatically.
>
>
> This is what we want to try and avoid, as for users on slow machines (some crazy
>  people use texlive on their PDAs) it takes forever.
>
>  Seeing as we only have 2 texmfs that would install any fonts, I hope to be able
>  to pre-generate the 2 configurations for those (along with ls-R etc...). Any
>  further comments on this?

If the target configuration(s) are basically frozen, i.e., no adding
or removing new packages, then I think this is fine, otherwise I would
follow Norbert's advice (and there is no one more qualified to give
such advice than Norbert).

Cheers

Tomek


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