Comment 4 for bug 186164

On Mo, 17 Mär 2008, Hans Georg wrote:
> > Where is the local texmf.cnf?
>
> In my home directory. Does it matter?

in ~/texmf.cnf?? If yes, it does matter. How do you expect that tex is
finding that? Should it search the whole hard disk, or the whole $HOME
(which might be on NFS and be huge ..).

> > What is the TEXMFCNF?
>
> The environment which specifies where to find the texmf.cnf config file.

Thanks, I was asking for the setting of TEXMFCNF, not its meaning.

> However, I found the bug. tex-live appears to put all the ls-R
> index files in a central directory, and consequently they cannot
> be updated by a user. It follows that under tex-live, a user
> texmf tree has to be searched explicitely without using an ls-R
> index.

What? The Debian/Ubuntu packages put ls-R files for /var/lib/texmf,
/usr/share/texmf, /usr/share/texmf-texlive under /var and create links.
Nothing else is done.

If you call
 mktexlsr ~/texmf
then you will get
 ~/texmf/ls-R

The problem might be that there was an out-dated ls-R file NOT listing
the texmf.cnf file. Right? In this case, please remove ls-R files in ~,
they are useless.

Best wishes

Norbert

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