Bug#133934: tetex-bin: doesn't work as a non-root user

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:59:59PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20011202-3.1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: makes the package in question unusable, causes other
>                packages to fail to build from source, etc.
> 
> | buildd@sarti:/build/buildd/cxref-1.5c$ latex README.tex 
> | This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
> 
> [...]
> 
> | (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/null.sty) (./README.aux)kpathsea: Running mktextfm  ecrm2074
> | mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/texmf/tfm': Permission denied

Since VARTEXFONTS is set to /var/spool/texmf, we need to include
the /var/spool/texmf/{source,tfm,pk} directories in tetex-bin.

   Julian

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