[Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#375922: Install several texlive-packages, and watch updmap-sys run over and over

[Helge Hafting]

Package: texlive
Version: 2005-2
Severity: wishlist


Not really a bug, only a performance problem.  Therefore, whishlist status.
I noticed that when installing several texlive packages, 
(dist-upgrade, or first-time install) then the rather slow updmap-sys
runs over and over and over.  It runs for every package that
might need it. This alone make dist-upgrade noticeably slower.

Contrast this to how update-menus works.  update-menus is
postponed until everything is installed, then it runs once.

Perhaps a similiar mechanism could be used for updmap-sys and
mktexlsr, saving some time?

Even more sad: uninstalling all of texlive runs updmap-sys and
mktexlsr for quite a few of the packages as they go, and the
effort is totally wasted as in the end there is nothing left.
Nort so much of a problem as one don't uninstall over and over.
But if a dealyed updmap-sys is implemented for dist-upgrades,
then it could be used on uninstall as well.

Helge Hafting


-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries 
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!

If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)

or 

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)

##################################
minimal input file


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other files

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 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1189 2006-06-29 00:25 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 3183 2006-06-29 00:10 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2006-05-20 03:16 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2006-06-28 23:51 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-05-20 03:16 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9145 2006-06-29 00:25 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12823 2006-06-29 00:25 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5593 2006-06-29 00:25 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-mm2
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages texlive depends on:
ii  texlive-context               2005-2     TeX Live: ConText macro package
ii  texlive-doc-en                2005-2     TeX Live: English documentation
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended     2005-2     TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-latex-base            2005-2     TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
ii  texlive-latex-recommended     2005-2     TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag

texlive recommends no packages.

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