texmfcnf.lua is broken for ConTeXt.

amano.kenji amano.kenji at proton.me
Tue Aug 16 15:08:50 CEST 2022


There are typos.

I tried to write TEXMFSYSCONFIG="selfautoparent:etc/texmf" and TEXMFSYSVAR="selfautoparent:var/lib/texmf"

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 at 12:55 PM, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:


> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, TeX Live Mailing List wrote:
>
> > Is there any documentation on the variables used in texmfcnf.lua?
>
>
> They are very similar to the kpathsea texmf.cnf variables, so
> the texinfo documentation of kpathsea should help.
>
> > Can there be any separate system-wide override file that can override certain variables in /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmfcnf.lua?
>
>
> Unfortunately not as far as I can remember. For Debian I always patched
> the values we need to have set into texmfcnf.lua. Other distributions
> might have forgotten that, though.
>
> It is a pity that texmfcnf.lua does not support layered configuration,
> similar to updmap, fmtutil, and even texmf.cnf ...
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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