[tlu] Weird log message

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sun Oct 6 15:07:15 CEST 2013


On Oct 6, 2013, at 3:07 AM, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at icloud.com> wrote:

> This morning there were a series of updates, most of them about PSNFSS fonts (avantgar, bookman, courier, etc.). Probably minor updates -- some tiny support file somewhere -- of no consequence to the user.
> 
> At the end of the update TLU showed two messages in the Log window, which I don't remember seeing before:
> 
> 2013-10-06 07:43:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _runUpdmapIfNeeded][710]	/usr/local/texlive/2013/../texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg is not in (
>    "/Users/brunovoisin/Library/texmf"
> ); ignoring
> 2013-10-06 07:43:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _runUpdmapIfNeeded][710]	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg is not in (
>    "/Users/brunovoisin/Library/texmf"
> ); ignoring
> 
> The wording of these messages is confusing: does this mean it's bad I don't have a personal updmap.cfg in my home directory?
> 
> If "Automatically enable fonts in my home directory" was checked, I would understand: this would mean at the end of its run, after running updmap-sys for the updmap.cfg's in texmf-dist and texmf-local, then TLU tests for a personal updmap.cfg in the user's texmf and if found runs updmap for it.
> 
> But given this pref isn't checked, why the tests? (I may have enabled the pref at some point in the past for testing, but then disabled it again shortly afterwards.)
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 


Howdy,

Those messages were there for quite a while as far as I can tell. Several TLU versions back at least. I may even have asked about them quite a while ago but I do know they're inconsequential.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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