From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31492 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:29 +0200 Message-ID: <453D38AD.1010608@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 1161640135 10469 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 21:48:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:48:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 23 23:48:53 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 1Gc7ez-0000eX-8N for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37AF1FE29; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:40 +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 03923-06; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E291FD91; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD871FD9A for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:32 +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 03924-03 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F05111FD8E for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 14577 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:48:30 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) 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:31492 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > A system-wide installation, if done cleanly, would be much easier (as > plink pointed out). If you (or 'texexec --make' to generate the > formats) ask kpathsea where to put the format files, it'll give you a > directory in TEXMFHOME, so a per user install. But how do you ask > kpathsea the correct question so that it'll tell you where they should > go for a system-wide install? > you can't and i remember asking for such a feature but ... ; the only way to figure that out is to check all format paths and take the first one that fits; unfortunalty the tetex paths are rather messy so it's hard to predict in what permutation of home, usr, share, sys, opt * local * tex, TeX, teTeX, whatever * texmf, texmflocal, texmf-local, texmf-teTeX, texmf-dis, texmf.local, texmf-whocares * web2c, web2c/engine etc etc a format may end up; this is further complicated by the fact that kpse has to do some guessing about where it's configuration files are (web2c, etc, home, nowhere), what trees make sense, etc etc; and, yes, some of the paths are hard coded in the binaries, so relocating is tricky ... isn't it magic that tex still runs -) but luatex will make thinsg better (we hope) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------