Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Die, 23 Aug 2005, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> Because it was a fault of me, we should close this bug report. What do
>> you think?
>
> Well, we should be sure that old .fmt/.efmt are definitely removed.
> Otherwise this will happend again.
I'm not even sure how this could happen. The history went as follows:
- No TEXMFSYSVAR, /usr/share/texmf/web2c is a symlink to
/var/lib/texmf/web2c (so there were no real files in $TEXMFMAIN/web2c)
- We introduced TEXMSYSVAR (VARTEXMF at the time) and provided a proper
symlink-to-dir transition for $TEXMFMAIN/web2c, and we had code in the
postinst that forced the introduction of VARTEXMF/TEXMFSYSVAR in
texmf.cnf.
Somehow installations managed to work with tetex-2.0.2 without VARTEXMF,
probably because of the error in the force-VARTEXMF code reported by
Jörg (thanks Jörg for looking so thoroughly at your output!) as #323826.
> Probably something like adding in the postinst of tetex-base 3.0 a
> clause rm -rf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/*.{fmt,efmt,base,log} etc and after
> this generation of the new formats.
What about putting this into tex-common? You'll have the same problem,
won't you?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
