[MacPorts] #24204: texlive_base-2007 User-modified texmf.cnf overwritten when it shouldn't be

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#24204: texlive_base-2007 User-modified texmf.cnf overwritten when it shouldn't be
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 Reporter:  nigel.stanger@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.8.2                                
 Keywords:  tex texlive texmf.cnf    |        Port:  texlive_base                         
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 I just upgraded texlive_base from 2007_7 to 2007_8. During this, it
 overwrote my customised texmf.cnf
 (/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf). Now it says on the first line of
 texmf.cnf that if you remove or alter the word "original", that it won't
 overwrite the file when upgrading. I had done this, but it got overwritten
 anyway.

 I know that this has worked correctly in the past, but I'm not sure how
 long ago, as I'm working from a clean install as of January this year when
 I upgraded to Snow Leopard.

 Note that you can't have a local modified copy of texmf.cnf elsewhere (say
 texmf-config), because then you have a chicken and egg problem: how does
 TeX find the local version of the config file when that file tells TeX
 where to find the texmf tree that it's in? :)  In other words, if you want
 customised texmf trees, you '''must''' modify this file (unless I've
 missed something obvious).

 Environment:
 Snow Leopard 10.6.2
 Xcode 3.2

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