![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/49e63acb01f2ca80efce7eed08310ce8.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Tobias Burnus wrote:
Hello,
for openSUSE there are now beta TeX Live 2008 packages available (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/). [By Werner Fink, who does also the normal openSUSE packages.]
The question is how the ConTeXt with LuaTeX should be best handled. By default, there is no luatex-cache and no (luatex) format.
Of cause a user can do:
export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c # export TEXMFCACHE=somewhere luatools --generate --verbose luatools --ini --compile cont-en
but in principle I would expect that the distribution does this already, which saves the TEXMFCACHE per user and makes "texexec --lua" working without requiring to run first all the other commands.
Questions:
a) Is the TEXMFCNF environment variable necessary or can this also be read by a config file, which is overwritten by the environment variable? Which scripts/executables make use of that environemt variable?
there is this automess stuff implemented which assumes that the distribution kind of follows the de-facto standards of having teh bin relative to the tree; in al other cases one needs to set env vars btw, there is a file texmfcnf.lua alongside the cnf file whioch can be tweaked; so you can leave the original cnf untouched
b) Is is possible -- as with kpsewhich -- to have a global cache for the format + global directories - and local directories which have then a higher precedence? I mean like: A global directory cache incl. the format files plus if the user creates a $HOME/texmf tree a user $TEXMFCACHE which contains the hashes of the user directory but such that luatex still finds the formats in the global directory?
not yet .. i'm still pondering over a robust system (one side effect is for instance that when there are multiple cached copies we need to get not only the one first in the chain, but also a valid one; i.e. what to do if the latest one has an older version number than demanded and such; no big deal, but it means that the cache loader needs to be made more clever which is something that i will not do in a current or beta but first on my own system when we have reached some stability) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------