[tex-live] Bug in release 20120903

[Norbert Preining]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, Karl Berry wrote:
>     > running updmap-sys...$HOME/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/updmap-sys:
>     > line 23: $HOME/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich: No
>     > such file or directory
> 
> Sounds to me like $HOME did not get expanded, and hence it is looking
> for a path with the literal string "$HOME/...", rather than
> /home/whatever.

I think he said that he replaced it by hand in the email, but the
real path is ok ...

But you are right, that might be a problem.

Best wishes

Norbert

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