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Sukneet Basuta (sukneet AT gmail.com) wrote [11.08.25 11:36]:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:02 PM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> > If it modifies config files, I think doing the links ourselves would be
> > better. What if it's an upgrade and the admin has his own config
> > settings? Speaking of which, we need to mark the config files as
> > volatile/protected/whatever so that if they are modified from the spell
> > install state they are left intact on later casts. I at least modify
> > texmf.cnf for example.
> >
> > The "proper upstream way to do it", according to upstream in this case,
> > is to just install prebuilt binaries. That's not what we're about.
> 
> After looking at texlinks' souce,
> http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/tetex/texlinks?view=markup
> , it looks like all it does is make symlinks. I think mine just messed
> up because the config variables were set wrong (the variables provided
> by kpsewhich).
> 
> At the same time, texlinks doesn't seem to do much. As such, I think
> it'll fine to make the links ourselves provided we do it like Gentoo
> does by reading fmtutil.cnf. Either solution should be fine imo.

I was a little braindead when I wrote the previous response. Since it's
happening in INSTALL, it shouldn't write to any installed config files,
and everything that it "installs" should get tracked by sorcery.
Currently the config files will get trashed anyway, but that's because
they aren't marked as config files as such in the spell, which needs to
be remedied. At any rate, it doesn't matter whether the spell installs
the symlinks manually or by way of texlinks.

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
Cauldron wizard and general mage
Source Mage GNU/Linux
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