texlive and biblatex-spbasic

[Herbert Voss]

Am 20.12.21 um 17:49 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users:
> I would like to better understand the tree(s) for texlive and what 
> texhash and tlmgr do
>
> The important points are found behind the #### at the end of the mail.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Wolfgang
>
> Your installed tlmgr will notice and ask you to update it before 
> updating anything else. The command to do this is: tlmgr update --self 
> After any updates of tlmgr, you can then run, for instance, tlmgr 
> update --all, which will update (including additions and removals) all 
> other packages in your installation that have been changed on the server.
>
> sudo tlmgr update --self
> [sudo] Passwort für wolfgang:
> tlmgr: package repository 
> https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet (verified)
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2021/tlpkg/backups
> tlmgr: no self-updates for tlmgr available
>
> tlmgr update --all
>

Wolfgang,

you can run

tlmgr --self --all update

then you do not need two  comamnds

>
> sudo texhash

that is already done my tlmgr.  And if you do not run the tlmgr as root
then you do not need it for texhash. I prefer always user permissions for
texlive. The reason why I did after installtion of texlive:

sudo chmod -R voss:voss /usr/local/texlive

then everything in this directors has user permission! And I never
need sudo to run texhash or tlmgr or ....

>
> wolfgang at Fuji:~$ find -iname 'texmf*'
> ./.texlive2020/texmf-var
> ./.texlive2016/texmf-var
> ./TEXMF-Sicherung
> ./TEXMF-Sicherung/texmf
> ./.texlive2019/texmf-var
> ./texmf
> ./.texlive2021/texmf-var
>
> wolfgang at Fuji:/$ sudo find -iname 'texmf*'
> ./root/.texlive2020/texmf-var

this is always created if you install texlive as root and running
tlmgr also as root.

If you want to see which package is used, run

kpsewhich biblatex-spbasic.sty

then you'll get what TeX will find first and using. With

kpsewhich --all biblatex-spbasic.sty

you'll get all files in the TeX dirextory structure.

> wolfgang at Fuji:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local$ ls -l
> insgesamt 52
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 1943 15. Dez 15:02 biblatex-spbasic.bbx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wolfgang wolfgang 2601 15. Dez 15:02 biblatex-spbasic.cbx
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root     staff    1578 10. Jul 20:01 
> biblatex-spbasic-old.bbx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root     staff     295 10. Jul 20:06 
> biblatex-spbasic-old.cbx
>
> #### Questions:
> How do I make sure the new version is used?

first the current directory is searched, then an existing texmf directory,
then the texmf-local directory, then the main texmf-dist/...

> Should I remove the older biblatex-spbasic?

rename the old files to for example:

biblatex-spbasic.bbx.20211212

> How do I tell lyx to use the new version?
>

It will be used automatically if you rename the old files.

Herbert