[SM-Discuss] Need advice from a TeXpert
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Mon Nov 17 19:11:27 EST 2008
Quoting "Kevin Monceaux" <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net>:
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Eric Sandall wrote:
>
>> What I'd do is the following:
>> 1. Check if your entry is already in the file
>> 2. If so, touch the file (since this package should modify that file).
>> If not, append the entry to the file.
>> 3. Run any update commands (e.g. updmap-sys) in FINAL
>
> Well, that sounded like a good plan. But I've hit a snag. If I do the
> above /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg, which was installed as part of
> tetex-texmf, gets recorded in my font spell's install log. If I dispel my
> font spell, it removes /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg completely.
> Should I perhaps handle the updates to web2c/updmap.cfg in my spell's
> FINAL so that it doesn't appear to touch web2c/updmap.cfg?
FINAL is a good place to put file modifications, but make sure the
files are marked as config or volatile. You may need to cast the spell
once to have the config/volatile property set in Sorcery's state, I do
not recall.
-sandalle
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