From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26949 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: version dates confuse me after upgrade Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4437AF30.3090406@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144500030 4931 80.91.229.2 (8 Apr 2006 12:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 08 14:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSCjn-00013o-AG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:40:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B46F1278F; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27379-01-3; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FB812792; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528E812792 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27379-01-2 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 846231278F for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:40:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 11701 for ; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:40:14 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26949 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > From: Hans Hagen > >>>> i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved >>>> (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live) >>>> >>>> >>> Hmm, tell me more about that if you remember. >>> >>> >> well, tetex adding tex related bin paths to the (user) profile files >> which then could clash with other tex installations >> > > That is hopefully a thing of the past. I just checked all the > texmf.cnf files it sees, and it's only the system default even though > I have ~/.texmf-{config,var} directories made by tetex. > > $ kpsewhere texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > > tmftools texmf.cnf shows what file is used, textools --find texmf.cnf does a more extensive search > This global texmf.cnf includes those two directories by default (at > least with tetex-3.0). A snip from there: > > TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf > TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var > TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config > TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST} > indeed, quite some paths (i hope that $TEXMFPROJECT will make it into there, although when i proposed that some reactions were that we already have too many paths; interesting since most of the funny config/var/sys ones mentioned in your example are probably empty anyway) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------