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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Thangalin wrote:
Hi,
1. Edit .../tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua 2. Set TEXMFCACHE = "/var/cache/context/texmf-cache" 3. Run first-setup.sh to update ConTeXt.
Create a file texmfcnf.lua next to setuptex for example (that is: in root of the installation) and set the variable there. That is: return { content = { variables = { TEXMFCACHE = "/var/cache/context/texmf-cache", }, }, }
Expected Results TEXMFCACHE remains "/var/cache/context/texmf-cache"
Actual Results TEXMFCACHE reverts to "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache"
No, reverting to the original value is expected. If you want to modify some variables, just place texmfcnf.lua (or texmf.cnf) somewhere else and only put the differences there. The allowed locations for texmfcnf.lua are determined by the variable TEXMFCNF being set in texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf in luatex sources: TEXMFCNF = {\ $SELFAUTOLOC,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/share/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/share/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/share/texmf/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOLOC/texmf/web2c,\ \ $SELFAUTODIR,\ $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf/web2c,\ $SELFAUTODIR/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTODIR/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTODIR/texmf/web2c,\ \ $SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT,\ \ $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-dist/web2c,\ $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf/web2c\ }
(c) user should be prompted to overwrite changed configuration values; (d) user should be prompted to accept overwriting each new value; or (e) a backup of the configuration file should be made, followed by a message that the changes have been overwritten and previous values archived.
No changes that you make to texmf/, texmf-context/, texmf-modules/ or texmf-yourplatform/ will ever be preserved. You need to use other texmf trees for that (like texmf-local for example). Mojca