Hi, I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slooooow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need to set the ruby lib path and/or move base files. The new version is uploaded. A next step is to get the stubs done in the right way (just texmfstart scriptname args) (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
(btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?)
Ubuntu Linux also uses sudo instead of a root login. There I get around it with: $ sudo bash (or your favorite shell) Password: ... # cmd1 ... -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
Le 15 mai 06 à 09:23, Hans Hagen a écrit :
Hi,
I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slooooow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need to set the ruby lib path and/or move base files.
The new version is uploaded. A next step is to get the stubs done in the right way (just texmfstart scriptname args)
Not quite related to this subject, but as you are going to make the ConTeXt installation more and more robust. It would be nice if the ConTeXt independant distrib could be use **without positionning any TEXMF like variables**. This would allow to use updated ConTeXt distrib without breaking a standard (more or less old) other LaTeX existing distibution. -- Maurice Diamantini
Maurice Diamantini wrote:
Le 15 mai 06 � 09:23, Hans Hagen a �crit :
Hi,
I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slooooow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need to set the ruby lib path and/or move base files.
The new version is uploaded. A next step is to get the stubs done in the right way (just texmfstart scriptname args)
Not quite related to this subject, but as you are going to make the ConTeXt installation more and more robust. It would be nice if the ConTeXt independant distrib could be use **without positionning any TEXMF like variables**. This would allow to use updated ConTeXt distrib without breaking a standard (more or less old) other LaTeX existing distibution.
hm, in principle you can put the minimal over an existing big one and cross your fingers for it to work. the problem with the texmf vars's is that some of them are hard coded (sigh) and the reason why i provide the 'setuptex' things is that when i install tex on some system, i want to be sure that there are no interferences (in the past tex was often installed on linxu systems by default and the only robust way to get rid of an exiting setup was to overload all relevant texmf related vars; btw, a inimal installation will not break anything exiting, since you can put it somewhere else; you can even get away from the setuptex scripts by running texmfstart --tree=/say/its/located/here texexec ... which is handy in web based environments; in that case, texmfstart will read the setuptex.tmf file Hans Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Maurice Diamantini wrote:
Not quite related to this subject, but as you are going to make the ConTeXt installation more and more robust. It would be nice if the ConTeXt independant distrib could be use **without positionning any TEXMF like variables**. This would allow to use updated ConTeXt distrib without breaking a standard (more or less old) other LaTeX existing distibution.
It is up to you to decide when to call "setuptex", so you can control this already. Or do I misunderstand something? Cheers, Taco
On 15 May 2006, at 09:23, Hans Hagen wrote:
(btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?)
This depends on what you want to do and on which system. On most unixes, you can say. You can in perl (and probably also ruby which I do not know) set all kinds of unixy things like real uid ($<) and effective uid ($>) as long as you already have the permissions. sudo -H -s to become root and also have root's home directory. G
hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that
(btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?)
i think i missed why you need to become root. is this for regular runs of context in the future? -f -- "will you leave me alone if i give you a quote?" -- emmanuel goldstein
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that
(btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?)
i think i missed why you need to become root. is this for regular runs of context in the future?
no, i need it just for experimenting / debugging Hans
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