mktexlsr/texhash/texconfig-sys rehash, what's the canonical %post/%postun for a TeX thing ?

[Jindrich Novy]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:24:51PM +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 16:24 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "CM" == Caolan McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > CM> So, what exactly is the current problem with these two ? Is it
> > CM> just the mysterious failure of TeX to execute some stuff, i.e.
> > 
> > Yes, I debugged this the other day.  The problem for bacula is that
> > latex2html somehow does not properly run texhash in %post, so nothing
> > can find html.sty.  If you force a texhash it works.  Changing the
> > post scriptlet for latex2html to not use "/usr/bin/env -
> > /usr/bin/texhash" but to just call texhash directly works.  I don't
> > know why.
> 
> I see that another tex package e.g. jadetex has a comment about 
> "use texconfig-sys rehash instead of texhash", and the change was...
> 
>  %post
> -/usr/bin/env - PATH=$PATH:%{TeXdir}/bin texhash > /dev/null 2>&1
> +[ -x %{_bindir}/texconfig-sys ] && %{_bindir}/texconfig-sys rehash
> 2> /dev/null || :
> 
> +%postun
> +[ -x %{_bindir}/texconfig-sys ] && %{_bindir}/texconfig-sys rehash
> 2> /dev/null || :
> +
> 
> So maybe a determination of the right way to rehash is called for and
> consistent usage might clear this up ?
> 

Yes, running rehashing of the kpathsea's ls-R files via texconfig-sys
as noted above shouldn't break anything and should correctly call
mktexlsr to regenerate ls-Rs. I actually suggested it to Ondrej while
fixing the jadetex and iproute build.

Jindrich

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