update-texmf-config(8) [debian man page]
UPDATE-TEXMF-CONFIG(8) System Manager's Manual UPDATE-TEXMF-CONFIG(8)
NAME
update-texmf-config - script used in maintainer scripts to trigger tex-common actions
SYNOPSIS
update-texmf-config [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the update-texmf-config command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.
update-texmf-config is a shell script that is called from maintainer scripts shipping new map files, hyphenation patterns, or any other TeX
input file.
The script simply activates the respective trigger, namely texmf-map for font map files, texmf-hyphen for hyphenation patterns, and texmf-
lsr for updates to the lsr database. All the necessary action will then be carried out by the tex-common package.
OPTIONS
map Activate the texmf-map trigger.
hyphen Activate the texmf-hyphen trigger.
lsr Activate the texmf-lsr trigger.
SEE ALSO
Further information can be found in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian.{txt,pdf.html}
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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NAME
dh_installtex - register Type 1 fonts, hyphenation patterns, or formats with TeX
SYNOPSIS
dh_installtex [debhelper options] [-n] [--priority=n] [--flavor=flavor[,flavor]] [map=MixedMap,file.map] [map=Map,file.map]
[map=KanjiMap,file.map] [mapfile=file.cfg[=n]] [hyphen=lang,file[,lhm=n][,rhm=n][,synonym=syn,...]] [hyphenfile=file.cnf[=n]]
[format=format,engine,hyphenfile,rest args] [formatfile=file.cnf[=n]]
DESCRIPTION
dh_installtex is a debhelper program that is responsible for updating the ls-R databases, registering map files, new formats, and new
hyphenation patterns with TeX.
Your package should depend on an appropriate version of tex-common so that the update-* commands are available. (This program adds that
dependency to ${misc:Depends}.)
WARNING This program does not check for the actual existence of any input files in TEXMF trees. If you call it without any further
specification on which packages to work on (using "-p" or "-N") it will add calls to management functions to all packages. In this case
don't forget to add ${misc:Depends} to all packages' dependencies.
SIMPLE USAGE
: Registering Files
If you only install files into /usr/share/texmf and want to be sure that mktexlsr is called in a correct way (e.g., also in the postrm
script when there is no functional mktexlsr), simply call
dh_installtex
COMPLEX USAGE
: Registering fonts, hyphenation patterns and formats
If in addition, you have to install map files, hyphenation patterns for additional languages, or format definitions you can use three
different methods to specify what should be installed:
1) Pre made config files: These files can be specified with the different typefile= options, together with an optional priority. type can
be one of map, format and hyphen, and these files will be installed into /etc/texmf/configdir/ for the respective type (updmap.d for map
files, hyphen.d for hyphenation pattern files, and fmt.d for format files).
Example:
dh_installtex mapfile=foo.cfg formatfile=debian/bar.cnf=42
would install foo.cfg as /var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texmf/foo.cfg, and debian/bar.cnf as /etc/texmf/fmt.d/42bar.cnf.
2) Directly on the cmd line: You can specify maps, formats, and hyphenations on the cmd line. The items are stored in the respective config
file 20package
Example:
dh_installtex map=Map,foo.map hyphen=ngerman-x-2011-07-01,dehyphn-x-2011-07-01.tex,hyph-de-1996.pat.txt,lhm=2,rhm=2,synonym=ngerman-x-latest,exceptions=hyph-de-1996.hyp.txt
would install a file /var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texmf/package.cfg containing the line
Map foo.map
and a file /etc/texmf/hyphen.d/20package.cnf containing the lines
name=ngerman-x-2011-07-01 file=dehyphn-x-2011-07-01.tex file_patterns=hyph-de-1996.pat.txt lefthyphenmin=2 righthyphenmin=2 synonym=ngerman-x-latest file_exceptions=hyph-de-1996.hyp.txt
3) Package files: You create a file debian/package.maps or debian/maps, debian/package.hyphens or debian/hyphens, debian/package.formats or
debian/formats. These files are installed with default priority and the name of the package. Each of these files will be installed into the
first package dh_installtex is told to act on. By default this is the first binary package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a
flags, it will be the first package specified by those flags.
Example:
dh_installtex
would install a present debian/package.formats file as /etc/texmf/fmt.d/20package.cnf.
Mixing the different variants
The command line items (Variant 2) are merged into the debian/package.maps (debian/package.hyphens, debian/package.formats) file and the
merged file is installed as 20package.cfg/cnf. If you specify an additional package.cfg/cnf (Variant 1) without a different priority than
the default one on the cmd line, this will raise an error since both files would be installed as 20package.cfg/cnf. You can only specify
package.cfg/cnf without a different priority than the default one if no debian/package.maps nor any command line Map files are present.
The pseudo-comment
If the provided cfg files do not contain the pseudo-comment as described in the Debian TeX Policy, Font configuration, an additional header
with explanation, warning and the pseudo-comment is added.
This program automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to register the fonts with TeX. See dh_installdeb(1) for an
explanation of how this works.
OPTIONS
-n, --noscripts
Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.
--priority=n
Set the default priority to n instead of 20.
--flavor=flavor[,flavor]
This option is used to select a different tree then the default /usr/share/texmf, and to switch on additional options. The argument
specify a list from flavors to be selected. At the moment you can select from the following list of flavors: tree:texlive,
map:config_for_active_maps, map:config_for_all_maps, format:build_all, format:add_one:formatname, and lsr:full.
tree:texlive will select the tree /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist and should only be used for files installed into this tree.
map:config_for_active_maps will create a file config.bar for each active (i.e. uncommented) map in each of the cfg file generated by
one of the three methods described above. These files are installed in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/.
If you select map:config_for_all_maps the script will generate config.bar even for those map files which are present in a cfg file, but
deactivated by a comment.
The file config.bar is used when called by `dvips -Pbar ...'. Thus it allows the activation of single map files even if they are not
automatically activated via the updmap(-sys) mechanism.
Default is not to generate any config files.
format:build_all will add code to the postinst script to create all defined formats, and to the postrm script to clean and recreate?
FIXME? the generated formats.
format:add_one:formatname allows to add the generation of a specific format without actually providing it (in a cnf file). This is
useful if a package adds hyphenation patterns to an existing formats.
format:no_links: Usually, for every format that is specified in a configuration file in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/, dh_installtex will create a
symlink /usr/bin/format that points to the corresponding engine. For example, /usr/bin/latex would be created as a symlink to pdftex.
The flavor format:no_links inhibits this. If a link already exists, dh_installtex will skip this format with an informational message,
even if this option is not given.
lsr:full: Recreate the lsr database not only for the standard trees, but also the distribution tree "/usr/share/texlive/texmf" and
"/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist".
NOTES
Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh_clean -k" should be called between invocations of this command, unless using the -n option.
Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.
Please refer to the Debian TeX policy for details about fonts configuration for TeX by Debian packages.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
AUTHOR
This program and its documentation was written by Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> for the Debian Operating System and both are
licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
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