[tex-live] $TEXMFHOME not working right

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 05/14/2010 12:13 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Do, 13 Mai 2010, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> I looked for an option in tlmgr for $TEXMFHOME (I vaguely recall such an
>> option in the installer?) but could not find it.
>>
>> Is there a configuration file to edit to fix this?
> 
> TEXMFHOME is searched for without ls-R files present.
<snip>
> It shoujld work.
> 
> Can you send the output of
> 	tlmgr conf
> please?

The relevant lines are:

======== version information =======
tlmgr revision 18011 (2010-04-26 21:41:33 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /opt/texlive/2009
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2009
…
======== kpathsea variables ========
…
TEXMFHOME=/home/chesky/texmf
VARTEXFONTS=/home/chesky/.texlive2009/texmf-var/fonts
TEXMF={/home/chesky/.texlive2009/texmf-config,/home/chesky/.texlive2009/texmf-var,/home/chesky/texmf,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-config,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-var,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf,!!/opt/texlive/2009/../texmf-local,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-dist}
SYSTEXMF=/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-var:/opt/texlive/2009/texmf:/opt/texlive/2009/../texmf-local:/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-dist
TEXMFDBS={!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-config,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-var,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf,!!/opt/texlive/2009/../texmf-local,!!/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-dist}
…

I’ve attached the full output in case I missed something pertinent.

(BTW, it complained of “missing finding of XDvi, config!”.)

I’m trying to play with the development versions of fontspec &c., so I
installed fontspec.sty [2010/05/14 v2.0 …] (and the .cfg & .lua) in
/home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec.  I even get this result:

chesky at derrial:~$ kpsewhich -all fontspec.sty
/home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
/opt/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
chesky at derrial:~$ kpsewhich fontspec.sty
/home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty

But when I try to typeset the documentation for the development version
of xltxtra, I get:

chesky at derrial:~/Downloads/wspr/xltxtra$ xelatex xltxtra.dtx
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
…
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 28, version
               `2010/05/14 v2.0' of package fontspec,
               but only version
               `2008/08/09 v1.18 Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX'
               is available.
…

Why is the system not preferring my locally-installed version?

—Joel Salomon
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