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Bug 276592

Summary: app-text/texlive-core-2008-r5: font configuration generated by getnonfreefonts-sys is overwritten by emerge
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: tex
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2009-07-05 16:59:21 UTC
app-text/texlive-core-2008-r5 contains a script getnonfreefonts-sys which downloads and installs additional fonts that are not included in the texlive distribution. 

The script itself works fine and updates the LaTeX font configuration. 

However, the changes are lost whenever texlive is reemerged... meaning that the installed packages as e.g. \usepackage{arial} are still working, but dvipdf does not find the font files anymore...

The only way to fix this is to force getnonfreefonts-sys to re-download and re-install all fonts:
getnonfreefonts-sys -a -f
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-11 18:30:58 UTC
Thanks for the report, assigning to maintainers.
Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2011-02-15 18:59:26 UTC
afaik the source of the problem is still there (no way to have updmap-sys append lines to updmap.cfg in a sane way) but getnonfreefont is gone in 2010, closing as wontfix, feel free to reopen if you disagree