[Fedora TeX Live] Packaging: TeX tree for non-texlive packages

[José Matos]

On 02/14/2013 11:34 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get "bibexport" up-to-date with the new texlive in F18 and
> up. It wants to install a few *.bst which I needs to be found. Can I
> create and own a subdirectory in
>
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
>
> or are they reserved for texlive subpackages? Currently, this goes to
>
> kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFMAIN' which is
>
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf
>
> which is empty.
>
> Also, I will turn
>
> BuildRequires:  /usr/bin/kpsewhich
> BuildRequires:  tetex-latex
> Requires:       tetex
> Requires(post):   /usr/bin/texhash
> Requires(postun): /usr/bin/texhash
>
> into
>
> BuildRequires:  /usr/bin/kpsewhich
> BuildRequires:  tex(latex)
> Requires:       tex-bibtex
> Requires(post):   /usr/bin/texhash
> Requires(postun): /usr/bin/texhash
>
> unless someone tells me a better way to requite kpsewhich and texhash
> (or to set the texmf tree resp. to update the db on install).
>
> Michael
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FWIW I have exactly the same issues with dvipost. And I will follow your
footsteps. :-)

-- 
José Matos