clone 375037 -1 retitle -1 loading existing base format breaks tetex or texlive packages severity -1 serious tags -1 patch stop
Andreas Pakulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: jadetex > Version: 3.13-6 > Followup-For: Bug #375037 > > Hi, > > I'd like to add that it is not as easy as changing the dependecies. I > did that here and the package prevents configuration of texlive-base-bin, > due to some problems with the fmtutil-call. Indeed, and this is a problem that can also occur with teTeX alone. Imagine the following scenario: - tetex-base, tetex-bin and jadetex are installed, the formats are generated. - tetex-base and -bin are updated in the same dpkg run. Updating either tetex--base or -bin requires all formats to be rebuilt (because of [possible] changes in the engine's, pool files, input files, etc.), so both postinst scripts will trigger a rebuild. After unpacking and before configuration, tetex-bin's configuration file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf exists, but there is also a /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf.dpkg-new. tetex-base will be configured before tetex-bin. Because of the dpkg-new file, update-fmtutil called by tetex-base's postinst will ignore information in 01tetex.cnf, but it will not ignore 40jadetex.cnf which has no dpkg-new file. - tetex-base's postinst calls fmtutil --all, and - woosh - there's no information about the latex format which jadetex wants to load. Thus fmtutil and tetex-base's postinst will fail. The solution is to not load the pregenerated latex.fmt, but instead load latex.ltx in jadetex.ini, just as latex.ini does it, before doing the proper jadetex stuff. Consequently, the format line in the fmtutil.cnf snippet must be changed: --- /etc/texmf/jadetex/jadetex.ini 2005-01-15 07:05:06.000000000 +0100 +++ myjadetex.ini.new 2006-08-22 17:18:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +\let\savedump\dump +\let\dump\relax +\input latex.ini +\let\dump\savedump + \input jadetex.ltx \dump \endinput --- /etc/texmf/fmt.d/40jadetex.cnf 2005-03-09 14:05:08.000000000 +0100 +++ 40jadetex.cnf.new 2006-08-23 17:16:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ # invoke with 'fmtutil --cnffile <file>' # # format engine pattern-file arguments -jadetex etex language.dat &latex jadetex.ini -pdfjadetex pdfetex language.dat &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini +jadetex etex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *jadetex.ini +pdfjadetex pdfetex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfjadetex.ini I should remark that this is something that we, the TeX maintainers, were not aware of, so there's also no fault on the side of the jadetex maintainer. xmltex has the same problem. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
