PING texmf maintainer [was RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade]
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue Jul 12 13:59:00 GMT 2005
----Original Message----
>From: FischRon.external
>Sent: 12 July 2005 14:32
> post-texmf.sh:
>
> lstat(./kpsewhich) failed ...
> ./kpsewhich: No such file or directory
> lstat(./kpsewhich) failed ...
> ./kpsewhich: No such file or directory
> lstat(./kpsewhich) failed ...
> ./kpsewhich: No such file or directory
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: /var/cache/fonts/ls-R: no write permission. Skipping...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> lstat(./kpsewhich) failed ...
> ./kpsewhich: No such file or directory
> /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied
> .......
> and then hundreds of error messages, most of them about "Permission
> denied".
> What do you think about all these errors?
I think the texmf maintainer needs to take a look at the issues relating
to post-texmf.sh. There's something that goes wrong with the perms in there
sometimes[*], and the whole thing frequently takes a *really* long time to
complete. That would be fair enough if it was doing something a bit more
productive than barfing over hundreds of inaccessible files.... :-O
Perhaps some of the work can be deferred until first time the app is run?
Or maybe I should just use the tiny version?
cheers,
DaveK
[*] See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00454.html
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