diff -up texlive-20240311/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf.texinfo-fix texlive-20240311/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
--- texlive-20240311/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf.texinfo-fix	2024-12-08 12:52:06.638563497 +0100
+++ texlive-20240311/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf	2024-12-08 13:40:14.565417658 +0100
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 % SELFAUTOPARENT (its grandparent = /usr/local/texlive/YYYY), and
 % SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT (its great-grandparent = /usr/local/texlive).
 % Sorry for the off-by-one-generation names.
-TEXMFROOT = $SELFAUTOPARENT
+TEXMFROOT = /usr/share/texlive
 
 % The various texmf trees used by TeX Live, follow.
 % They must must all have the TDS directory structure (https://tug.org/tds).
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ TEXMFDIST = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-dist
 TEXMFMAIN = $TEXMFDIST
 
 % Local additions to the distribution trees.
-TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT/texmf-local
+TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local
 
 % TEXMFSYSVAR, where *-sys store cached runtime data.
-TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-var
+TEXMFSYSVAR = /var/lib/texmf
 
 % TEXMFSYSCONFIG, where *-sys store configuration data.
 TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-config
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-config
 % to %USERPROFILE% on Windows, $HOME otherwise.
 TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf
 
+% Texinfo on Fedora lives out of $TEXMFROOT
+TEXINFOHOME = /usr/share/texmf
+
 % TEXMFVAR, where texconfig/updmap/fmtutil store cached runtime data.
 TEXMFVAR = ~/.texlive2024/texmf-var
 
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ TEXMFAUXTREES = {}
 % The odd-looking $TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMF... construct is so that if no auxtree
 % is defined (99% common case), no extra elements will be added to
 % the search paths. tlmgr takes care to end any value with a trailing comma.
-TEXMF = {$TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFDIST}
+TEXMF = {$TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXINFOHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFDIST}
 
 % Where to look for, and where mktexlsr creates, ls-R files. By default,
 % this is all and only the !! elements of TEXMF, so that mktexlsr does not