cygport patches for TeX Live

[Ken Brown]

On 2/11/2015 7:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 16:46 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>> 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 applied and pushed patches 1 and 3; given the texlive/fontconfig
> discussion, does 2 still apply?

Not as it stands.  But for users who have chosen to make the TeX Live fonts 
available to fontconfig (by creating a symlink as discussed in the other 
thread), I think I should keep the font caches up to date.  I'll send a revised 
patch tomorrow that does this.

Ken