User-Agent: Build Identifier: After an installation of Fedora Core rawhide, an unknown process modifies files in the path ``/usr/share/texmf/web2c/''. ``/usr/share/texmf/web2c/'' is owned by the package ``tetex''. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY ``/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.'' http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA ``The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files.'' http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY ``/var is specified here in order to make it possible to mount /usr read-only. Everything that once went into /usr that is written to during system operation (as opposed to installation and software maintenance) must be in /var.'' http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION ``This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application or the system. State information is data that programs modify while they run, and that pertains to one specific host. Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's operation. State information is generally used to preserve the condition of an application (or a group of inter-related applications) between invocations and between different instances of the same application. State information should generally remain valid after a reboot, should not be logging output, and should not be spooled data.'' http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA ``/var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between invocations of the application and rebooting the system.'' http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE ``The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp.'' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 105331 [details] list of all files in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ that are in neither rpmdb nor rpmdb-fedora
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 3 and Fedora Core 4 are no longer supported. If you could retest this issue on a current release or on the latest development / test version, we would appreciate that. Otherwise, this bug will be marked as CANTFIX one month from now. Thanks for your help and for your patience.
Most of the files mentioned in comment #1 now appear in the directory "/usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/", probably due to a change in "tetex-3.0-10" : * Mon Nov 21 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy> 3.0-10 - update dependencies for modular X - use @texmf@-var, @texmf@-config trees To me this looks 'as designed'. Furthermore, because 'teTeX' is no longer supported upstream (http://www.tug.org/tetex/), 'teTeX' will be replaced by 'TeXLive' in the near-future (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive). Resolving bug with resolution "DEFERRED", feel free to reopen this bug if needed. Thank you in advance.