[tlbuild] [tex-live] texlive install overwrites /usr/bin/man

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-11-22 at 08:16:25 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:

 > On So, 20 Nov 2011, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
 > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/texlive.html
 > 
 > Quite a lot things are wrong here. First the "Introduction"; TeX Live
 > is not a *forked successor* of teTeX.

Yes, there was no fork.  It's been an extended teTeX until 2006, now
it's also its successor.  Maybe one can call it a fork when all the
shell scripts are replaced by something else.

However, this is quite strange:

 "the teTeX TeX document production system invented by Donald Knuth"


And this is pure nonsense as well:

   mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf        \
            /usr/share/texmf-config \
            /usr/share/texmf-dist   \
            /usr/share/texmf-var    \
            /usr/share/texmf-local  \
            /var/lib/livetex/fonts  &&

Just run mktexlsr without any argument.  If you *have to* specify
paths, then your setup is wrong and the created ls-R files are useless
because they are not found later anyway.

The last path, as well as

   texconfig-sys font rw

are obsolete.  Note that you give all users rw access to a particular
directory.  Might be a security risk.  Without this, generated .pk
files are put into TEXMFHOME, which is more secure.

There is no need to invoke texlinks manually.  It's run by fmtutil
when necessary.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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