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Re: cygport patches for TeX Live
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:50:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: cygport patches for TeX Live
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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