From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45179 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context using LuaTeX - distribution packaging question Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4908DA0F.9020308@wxs.nl> References: <49083180.1080607@net-b.de> <49084009.30404@net-b.de> <4908435F.9090801@wxs.nl> <49087A0B.5050206@net-b.de> <49087CDF.9090507@wxs.nl> <4908AE53.3080609@net-b.de> <4908B1BD.3030104@net-b.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225316988 6168 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2008 21:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:49:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 29 22:50:46 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvIw2-0002VB-NB for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:50:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7411FC0D; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:49:27 +0100 (CET) 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 15427-01-10; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:48:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830871FBD4; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:48:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E631FBD4 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:48:34 +0100 (CET) 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 14823-02-7 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C361FB8C for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.2.100] (unverified [10.100.1.11]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 5405-1840426 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:59 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: <4908B1BD.3030104@net-b.de> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.11 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:45179 Archived-At: Tobias Burnus wrote: > Tobias Burnus wrote: >> c) Werner asks: Why is the KPSE library not used? >> > I have a scenario which fails with the current mechanism - even if > following the sym links worked. Assume that a user only puts a texmf.cnf > under "$HOME/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf". That file will be used by "luatex", > "pdftex" etc. but "luatools" will still resolve > /usr/share/texmf/.../luatools.lua if it follows $SELF. well, users can always force a file if there is logic we can try to follow it, if there is hard coded behaviour, well, we can forget about it; also, keep in mind that luatools collapses all cnf files that it uses (it does use more if specified) into one file in the cache, so any change to a cnf must be followed by luatools --generate > Thus I'm in growingly in favour of using KPSE (just) for finding > "texmf.cnf" and "texmfcnf.lua"; for all other purposes including > seaching files whatever other method can be used. no option 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________