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Re: cygport patches for TeX Live


On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 16:46 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/5/2015 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Ken Brown writes:
> >> Do you have an opinion about that?  I suggested /etc/texmf/postinstall
> >> or /var/lib/texmf/postinstall, but Achim had other ideas.  The only
> >> precedent we have so far is Achim's new _autorebase, which uses
> >> /etc/rebase.
> >
> > Even for this I think /etc is the wrong place and I'd consider moving it
> > elsewhere.  Something in /var on the other hand sounds OK to me.
> > LSB/FHS seems to suggest /var/lib for this purpose unless there is yet
> > another more specific requirement I didn't find while browsing it.
> 
> In view of https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-01/msg00034.html, I'll use 
> /var/lib/texmf/postinstall for the postinstall markers.  I'm attaching revised 
> cygport patches.

I applied and pushed patches 1 and 3; given the texlive/fontconfig
discussion, does 2 still apply?

--
Yaakov




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