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-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf8
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
index 855c331489d..c4ec90a7da5 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-09-20 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
+
+ * texmf.cnf: strongly warn that customizations in this file will
+ be lost by later updates.
+
2008-08-05 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
* mktextfm (MAG): set back to 1. mag=0 fails with larm1000.mf,
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
index 63098881ee5..b87eb7353b9 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
+++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
% original texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea.
% Public domain.
-%
+%
+% If you modify this original file, YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST when it is
+% updated. Instead, put your changes -- and only your changes, not an
+% entire copy of the full texmf.cnf! -- in ../../texmf.cnf. That is, if
+% this file is installed in /some/path/to/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf,
+% add your custom settings to /some/path/to/texlive/2008/texmf.cnf.
+%
% What follows is a super-summary of what this .cnf file can
% contain. Please read the Kpathsea manual for more information.
%