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-rw-r--r--Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm36
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
index 4bc22da9fec..128902db921 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
@@ -4585,7 +4585,11 @@ sub mktexupd {
}
-=item C<setup_sys_user_mode($user,$sys,$tmfc, $tmfsc, $tmfv, $tmfsv)>
+=item C<setup_sys_user_mode($prg, $optsref, $tmfc, $tmfsc, $tmfv, $tmfsv)>
+
+Return two-element list C<($texmfconfig,$texmfvar)> of which directories
+to use, either user or sys. If C<$prg> is C<mktexfmt>, and the system
+dirs are writable, use them even if we are in user mode.
=cut
@@ -4613,7 +4617,8 @@ sub setup_sys_user_mode {
exit(1);
}
if (!$optsref->{'sys'}) {
- print STDERR "$prg [WARNING]: hidden sys mode found, switching to sys mode.\n" if (!$optsref->{'quiet'});
+ print STDERR "$prg [WARNING]: hidden sys mode found, switching to sys mode.\n"
+ if (!$optsref->{'quiet'});
$optsref->{'sys'} = 1;
}
}
@@ -4623,15 +4628,21 @@ sub setup_sys_user_mode {
# we are running as updmap-sys, make sure that the right tree is used
$texmfconfig = $TEXMFSYSCONFIG;
$texmfvar = $TEXMFSYSVAR;
+ &debug("TLUtils::setup_sys_user_mode: sys mode\n");
+
} elsif ($optsref->{'user'}) {
$texmfconfig = $TEXMFCONFIG;
$texmfvar = $TEXMFVAR;
- # mktexfmt is often run accidentally by a user with missing formats
- # and the resulting format dumps are put into TEXMFVAR, which is
- # one of the most common source of problems.
- # Only for mktexfmt (but not for fmtutil, which would need to be called
- # explicitely with fmtutil -user) we check whether TEXMFSYSVAR is writable
- # and if yes, create formats there.
+ &debug("TLUtils::setup_sys_user_mode: user mode\n");
+
+ # mktexfmt is run (accidentally or on purpose) by a user with
+ # missing formats; we want to put the resulting format dumps in
+ # TEXMFSYSVAR if possible, so that future format updates will just
+ # work. Until 2021, they were put in TEXMFVAR, causing problems.
+ #
+ # We only do this for mktexfmt, not fmtutil; if fmtutil is called
+ # explicitly with fmtutil -user, ok, do what they said to do.
+ #
if ($prg eq "mktexfmt") {
my $switchit = 0;
if (-d "$TEXMFSYSVAR/web2c") {
@@ -4640,18 +4651,19 @@ sub setup_sys_user_mode {
$switchit = 1;
}
if ($switchit) {
- # inform about switch, but not for mktexfmt which expects output to be only the format
- $prg eq "mktexfmt" || info("$prg: using TEXMFSYSVAR instead of TEXMFVAR since it is writable!\n");
- $texmfvar = $TEXMFSYSVAR;
+ $texmfvar = $TEXMFSYSVAR;
+ &ddebug(" switched to $texmfvar for mktexfmt\n");
}
}
} else {
- print STDERR "" .
+ print STDERR
"$prg [ERROR]: Either -sys or -user mode is required.\n" .
"$prg [ERROR]: In nearly all cases you should use $prg -sys.\n" .
"$prg [ERROR]: For special cases see https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html\n" ;
exit(1);
}
+
+ &debug(" returning: ($texmfconfig,$texmfvar)\n");
return ($texmfconfig, $texmfvar);
}