[tex-live] [install-tl] Limitation on length of installation path?

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Fri Sep 7 22:41:55 CEST 2012


On 2012-09-07 at 19:28:02 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote:

 > Hello,
 > 
 > ** Norbert Preining [2012-09-07 19:07:03 +0900]:
 > 
 > > Hi
 > 
 > >> Also, removing either `local' or `texlive' (i.e. setting
 > >> installation path to
 > >>  /home/vladimir/usr/texlive/2012
 > >> or
 > >>  /home/vladimir/usr/local/2012
 > >> ) allows to install TL without manual intervetion.
 > 
 > >> Is this intended limitation?
 > 
 > > Yes and no. We check on writeabity two levels up in the
 > > hierarchy, but if that does not even exist it looks like it
 > > breaks.
 > 
 > I naively thought that it is enough to check permission to write
 > (create) in top directory, like e.g. ~/usr (I assume that this
 > directory exists) or `~', if to talk about `~/usr/local/...'. Is
 > this perl limitation, e.g. missing analog of `-p' parameter of
 > `mkdir' or something other? I'm just curious.

No, there is a function mkdirhier() in TLUtils.pm which does the same
as mkdir -p .  It has been written in order to create the directory
tree in TEXMFLOCAL.
 
Regards,
  Reinhard

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