Re: cygport patches for TeX Live

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 1/5/2015 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
> > Do you have an opinion about that?  I suggested /etc/texmf/postinstall
> > or /var/lib/texmf/postinstall, but Achim had other ideas.  The only
> > precedent we have so far is Achim's new _autorebase, which uses
> > /etc/rebase.
>
> Even for this I think /etc is the wrong place and I'd consider moving it
> elsewhere.  Something in /var on the other hand sounds OK to me.
> LSB/FHS seems to suggest /var/lib for this purpose unless there is yet
> another more specific requirement I didn't find while browsing it.

In view of https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-01/msg00034.html, I'll use 
/var/lib/texmf/postinstall for the postinstall markers.  I'm attaching revised 
cygport patches.

I'm also attaching, for reference, the corresponding revised perpetual 
postinstall scripts.

Ken

Attachment: 0001-prep_texlive-remove-calls-to-mktexlsr.patch
Description: Text document

Attachment: 0002-prep_texlive-remove-calls-to-fc-cache.patch
Description: Text document

Attachment: 0003-prep_texlive-group-enable-disable-commands-in-calls-.patch
Description: Text document

Attachment: 0p_texlive_prep.dash
Description: Text document

Attachment: zp_texlive_finish.dash
Description: Text document