From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18430 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2014 13:19:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18416 invoked by uid 89); 19 Dec 2014 13:19:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:19:18 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id sBJDJGn9016240 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:19:16 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id sBJDJEj9026956 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:19:16 -0500 Message-ID: <549425CC.5030205@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:19:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport patches for TeX Live References: <5490B70E.2040903@cornell.edu> <5490BB84.2020506@cornell.edu> <54920139.1030605@cornell.edu> <87bnn1z7sn.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> <5492D29F.5050306@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <5492D29F.5050306@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 On 12/18/2014 8:11 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/18/2014 3:22 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> I don't really like the idea of using /etc directly for this, what if >> every package starts doing that? If /usr/share//postinstall >> doesn't work, we should at least create a subdirectory in /etc for this >> purpose. > > I used /etc/texmf because that directory is already created by TeX Live and is > used for various configuration files. But I'm not wedded to that. If we want > to settle on a standard place for packages to put postinstall marker files, I'll > go with whatever the consensus is. I just took a look at the FHS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard), and it strikes me that /var/lib/ might be a good place for marker files. It seems to fit better than /etc/ or /usr/share/. So I could use /var/lib/texmf/postinstall for TeX Live postinstall markers. Note that /var/lib/texmf is already created and used by TeX Live for other data. In the TeX Live internals, this directory is $TEXMFSYSVAR, whereas /etc/texmf is $TEXMFSYSCONFIG: $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSVAR /var/lib/texmf $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSCONFIG /etc/texmf Ken