[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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