[subversion-commit] SVN tex-common commit + diffs: r1478 - tex-common/trunk/debian

[Ralf Stubner]

Author: stubner-guest
Date: 2006-07-03 19:23:02 +0000 (Mon, 03 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 1478

Modified:
   tex-common/trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian
   tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian
Log:
improved the documentation for the new font caching slightly


Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian	2006-07-03 19:10:54 UTC (rev 1477)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian	2006-07-03 19:23:02 UTC (rev 1478)
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
   
   * Breakage with TeXLive
   
-    The texlive packages do not yet automatically create a user's TEXMFVAR
-    directory for font caching.  This might break document processing in
-    some configurations.  Simply create the directory $HOME/.texmf-var
-    manually to fix this.
+    The texlive packages as of version 2005-2 do not automatically create
+    a user's TEXMFVAR directory for font caching. This might break
+    document processing in some configurations. Simply create the
+    directory $HOME/.texmf-var manually to fix this.
   
  -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Mon,  3 Jul 2006 15:25:26 +0200

Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2006-07-03 19:10:54 UTC (rev 1477)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2006-07-03 19:23:02 UTC (rev 1478)
@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@
  instead, but this directory is cleaned up regularly.
 
  On multi-user machines, it might be advisable that the local
- administrator set VARTEXFONTS to a persistent directory,
- e.g. /var/cache/fonts.  The variable is set in in
- /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf, do not forget to run update-texmf
- after making the change.  Care should be taken to specifiy
- appropriate permissions for that directory.  Either the local admin
+ administrator enables a site-wide font cache and sets VARTEXFONTS to
+ a persistent directory, e.g. /var/cache/fonts.  The variable is set in
+ /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf and can either be changed there or 
+ overwritten in a file that sorts before 05TeXMF.cnf, e.g.  
+ /etc/texmf/texmf.d/04VARTEXFONTS.cnf.  Do not forget to run
+ update-texmf after making the change.  To enable a side-wide font
+ caching the admin should copy /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf to
+ /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf and use 'varfonts' instead of 'texmfvar' in
+ MT_FEATURES.  Care should be taken to specifiy appropriate permissions
+ for the directory containing the font cache.  Either the local admin
  should create all available font data and not allow write access, or
  else write access should be limited to trusted users.  Yet an other
  alternative is to bind-mount /var/cache/fonts from a separate