[tex-live] mktexlsr and file owner
Thomas Esser
te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Tue Sep 20 17:02:53 CEST 2005
> sudo mktexlsr
...
> Is there a reason to not update the user id and group id of the ls-R
> files to their original values (when running mktexlsr as root)?
This is hard to implement in a portable way. I think that neither
"id -u" nor "stat" is portable enough.
>From the view of mktexlsr, the userid and home directories do not match;
which causes the problem that you are running into.
You can easily do it better by using
sudo -H mktexlsr
to update the global ls-R files and
mktexlsr
just to update your own file.
Thomas
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