From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: texlive problems Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:45:46 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Eho-0003Of-T6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:45:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Ehn-00062W-2d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:45:47 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22a]:34905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Ehm-00062Q-Tq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:45:47 -0400 Received: by mail-vk0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id d127so152228476vkh.2 for ; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Guix-devel Hi, I've found a couple of problems with our TeXLive package: * the directory dedicated to local packages is configured to: /gnu/texmf-local The standard location is $prefix/texmf-local You can check it with, e.g., 'kpsewhich --show-path=.sty'. * The 3rd party files installed in that directory (once fixed) are only found if there is a the database file 'ls-r'. This would probably require a profile hook. Another way may possibly be to remove the '!!' in front of the path in the following definition (untested) TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST} in the main texmf.cnf file. Regards, Fede