tetex updates only rarely. the advice from the tex community is that one should regularly install a pdfetex replacement. the steps are [1] obtain source from http://sarovar.org/download.php/794/pdftex-1.30.4.tar.bz2 [2] unpack. [3] run the Build script in the top dir. [4] for gentoo, replace pdfetex in /usr/sbin/ and pdfetex.pool in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ [5] redefine TEXMFCNF as export TEXMFCNF=`kpsewhich --show-path=.cnf` this needs to be set by the user henceforth. if I understood the gentoo tetex build better, I could probably learn how to make this systemwide, so that pdfetex knows to look into /var/lib/texmf, too. (from thomas esser: you could go one step further and try to rebuild pdfetex with the TEXMFCNF setting of gentoo. To do this, just edit the TEXMFCNF setting in src/texk/kpathsea/texmf.in to look the same as the setting in `kpsewhich texmf.cnf` Then, (cd texk/kpathsea; make) (cd texk/web2c; make pdfetex) ) [6] fmtutil --all Now, this is not too painful, but I do not know how to create a portage ebuild scripts, nor do I understand the tetex ebuild, which seems somewhat complex. I thought I would just tell you the steps that got me there. I would name this something like tetex-pdftex-update-1.30.4.ebuild Incidentally, the placement of files into /var/lib/texmf/ did give me quite some trouble. not sure why you did this file arrangement. If you could improve on my above steps, by compiling the /var/lib/texmf into the replacement pdfetex and pdfetex.pool (or the rebuilt fmt files), it would be terrific. regards, /ivo welch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-12.html is a proper place for this.
