Description of problem:
texlive has replaced many scriptlets with triggers in the kpathsea subpackage of texlive in October 2016 (see changelog of texlive-2016-30.20160520.src.rpm). All the font subpackages of texlive has no scriptlets now. They also moved config files to /etc/texlive (if I had understood it correctly).

tex-fonts-hebrew is a package build from extra source rpm, not from texlive source rpm (like many other tex font package). 

The problem is that tex-fonts-hebrew creates map files in /var/lib/texmf/fonts/ but other fonts packages don't use this location for map files. But TeX programs search the /var/lib/texmf/ path before the path where other packages create and update the map files. As a result, many fonts are not found because the are not listed in the map files in /var/lib/texmf/ . This breaks LaTeX / TeX / PDFLaTeX / etc. on a (new) Fedora 25 installation. They are working on Fedora 24.

Package tex-fonts-hebrew is contained in package group authoring-and-publishing as a default package (in comps.xml of Fedora 25). It was installed by my kickstart as part of package group authoring-and-publishing. I have compared the modification time of files like /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex_dl14.map with the timestamps in /var/log/anaconda/packaging.log and found only this package that has scriptlets which can write something to this directory.

A solution would be that package tex-fonts-hebrew has the scriptlets removed and uses the triggers of texlive-kpathsea-bin for updating map files.


A temporary solution for already installed hosts would be to remove the package or to rename (or remove) the /var/lib/texmf/fonts/ directory.

dnf -y remove tex-fonts-hebrew
mv /var/lib/texmf/fonts /var/lib/texmf/fonts-wrong



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tex-fonts-hebrew-0.1-24.fc24.noarch
texlive-kpathsea-bin-svn40473-30.20160520.fc25.x86_64
texlive-2016-30.20160520.fc25.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install package group authoring-and-publishing and other LaTeX packages, for example texlive-collection-latex, texlive-kpathsea-bin, texlive-charter
2. ls -lR /var/lib/texmf/fonts/
3. Try a command like this:
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 bchr8r


Actual results:

Step 2:
$ ls -lR /var/lib/texmf/fonts/
/var/lib/texmf/fonts/:
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 26. Jan 02:34 map

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map:
insgesamt 12
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 26. Jan 02:34 dvipdfmx
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 26. Jan 02:34 dvips
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 26. Jan 02:34 pdftex

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx:
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 26. Jan 02:34 updmap

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap:
insgesamt 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1181 13. Feb 03:33 kanjix.map

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips:
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 13. Feb 03:33 updmap

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap:
insgesamt 5472
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   15786 13. Feb 03:33 builtin35.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   21259 13. Feb 03:33 download35.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1938600 13. Feb 03:33 ps2pk.map
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      14 13. Feb 03:33 psfonts.map -> psfonts_t1.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1679358 13. Feb 03:33 psfonts_pk.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1938705 13. Feb 03:33 psfonts_t1.map

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex:
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 13. Feb 03:33 updmap

/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap:
insgesamt 3796
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1938607 13. Feb 03:33 pdftex_dl14.map
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      15 13. Feb 03:33 pdftex.map -> pdftex_dl14.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1943340 13. Feb 03:33 pdftex_ndl14.map


Step 3:
$ mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 bchr8r
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for bchr8r.
mktexpk: perhaps bchr8r is missing from the map file.




Expected results:

Step 3:
$ mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 bchr8r
mktexpk: Running gsftopk bchr8r 657
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2/920
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mktexpk: /home/users1/edgar/.cache/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/pk/modeless/bitstrea/charter/bchr8r.657pk: successfully generated.
/home/users1/edgar/.cache/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/pk/modeless/bitstrea/charter/bchr8r.657pk



Additional info:

You can try a test file like this: texlive-character-test.tex
\documentclass[11pt,oneside]{article}
\usepackage{charter}
\begin{document}
Hello. 
\end{document}

Compile it with pdflatex for example.