From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context using LuaTeX - distribution packaging question
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490842EE.6070709@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49083180.1080607@net-b.de>
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for openSUSE there are now beta TeX Live 2008 packages available
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/). [By Werner
> Fink, who does also the normal openSUSE packages.]
>
> The question is how the ConTeXt with LuaTeX should be best handled. By
> default, there is no luatex-cache and no (luatex) format.
>
> Of cause a user can do:
>
> export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c
> # export TEXMFCACHE=somewhere
> luatools --generate --verbose
> luatools --ini --compile cont-en
>
> but in principle I would expect that the distribution does this already,
> which saves the TEXMFCACHE per user and makes "texexec --lua" working
> without requiring to run first all the other commands.
>
>
> Questions:
>
> a) Is the TEXMFCNF environment variable necessary or can this also be
> read by a config file, which is overwritten by the environment variable?
> Which scripts/executables make use of that environemt variable?
there is this automess stuff implemented which assumes that the
distribution kind of follows the de-facto standards of having teh bin
relative to the tree; in al other cases one needs to set env vars
btw, there is a file texmfcnf.lua alongside the cnf file whioch can be
tweaked; so you can leave the original cnf untouched
> b) Is is possible -- as with kpsewhich -- to have a global cache for the
> format + global directories - and local directories which have then a
> higher precedence? I mean like: A global directory cache incl. the
> format files plus if the user creates a $HOME/texmf tree a user
> $TEXMFCACHE which contains the hashes of the user directory but such
> that luatex still finds the formats in the global directory?
not yet .. i'm still pondering over a robust system (one side effect is
for instance that when there are multiple cached copies we need to get
not only the one first in the chain, but also a valid one; i.e. what to
do if the latest one has an older version number than demanded and such;
no big deal, but it means that the cache loader needs to be made more
clever which is something that i will not do in a current or beta but
first on my own system when we have reached some stability)
Hans
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 9:48 Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 10:50 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 11:05 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 11:56 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 14:58 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 15:10 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 18:41 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 18:55 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 21:47 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-30 7:13 ` Peter Münster
2008-10-29 19:06 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 19:44 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 21:32 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-30 10:07 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-30 10:28 ` luigi scarso
2008-10-30 10:54 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 11:03 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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