Re: cygport patches for TeX Live

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 2/11/2015 11:10 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/11/2015 7:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Not as it stands.  But for users who have chosen to make the TeX Live
> fonts available to fontconfig (by creating a symlink as discussed in the
> other thread), I think I should keep the font caches up to date.  I'll
> send a revised patch tomorrow that does this.

On second thought, that patch is OK as is.  I'll just change the texlive 
perpetual postinstall script so that it only calls fc-cache if the 
symlink /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf exists.

Ken