[tex-live] files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 19 August 2010 Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

 > > Are the files generated by updmap and fmtutil platform independent?
 > 
 >   Yes, absolutely.  The map files produced by updmap are plain text
 > files whose syntax varies slightly between the different programs
 > that read them (dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex), but in any case it does
 > not depend on the platform.  The format files also don't depend on
 > the platform they're produced on, although their layout varies
 > greatly from one engine to the other (TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, etc.).

You can install TeX Live on a server and mount it (via NFS or Samba)
on various clients.  This worked for Unix systems for years, for
Windows since TeX Live 2008.  This means that everything except the
files in bin/<platform> is platform independent.

 > > are thinking of providing a pre-made texmf-var in OpenBSD
 > > packages (if possible).
 > 
 >   That should work, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't.
 > 
 > > Is there anything else I would need other than texmf-var
 > > (texmf-config?).
 > 
 >   The configuration files in texmf/web2c, obviously, since that's
 > where texmf.cnf and other sit by default.

I recommend not to change anything in texmf at all unless there is a
good reason.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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