Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, that symlink is contained in the package tetex-base itself >> (i.e. created during build time). Do you have any clue, why it >> was not written to the disk? > > I removed it myself to get rid of the circular symlink. > > When I reinstall tetex-base on a system where both language.def symlinks > are removed, the proper /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def > symlink comes back, but I get this error: > > # apt-get install --reinstall tetex-base > [...] > Preparing to replace tetex-base 3.0-7 (using .../tetex-base_3.0-7_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement tetex-base ... > Replaced by files in installed package tex-common ... > Setting up tetex-base (3.0-7) ... > dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/plain/language.def' is a > circular link > (= `/etc/texmf/plain/language.def') > > and this symlink is created: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2005-09-09 14:12 /etc/texmf/plain/language.def -> > /etc/texmf/plain/language.def >
This bug is pretty confusing, but I think that it is either due to some particular problem on your machine (hardware or improper user action), or due to a problem when upgrading between particular versions in experimental that I haven't tested. I only tested upgrades from sid, and for the younger versions the upgrade from the previous version (althought the latter sometimes required manual action). > If I reinstall tetex-base on a system > where /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def exists, I get: you mean where it exists as a symlink? What about the target? >> Can you (just for fun) purge you teTeX system on the broken machine >> and do a complete reinstall 3.0? Does that solve the problem? > > It is not funny because it would remove 40 packages and 150MB from my > system and reinstalling everything afterwards would be a pain. Just for the record: For such purposes it would work to remove the tetex packages with dpkg --force-depends and reinstall immediately afterwards. > Furthermore I would loose the ability to test a potential fix. Frankly speaking, if there _is_ a bug in the experimental packages that causes a circular symlink, we would fix it in the sense that it does no longer do that; but I wouldn't spend much time on fixing existing experimental systems. That's why the package is in experimental - you've been warned. But I really cannot see where we could be causing this *in*our*current*package*. In your message http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316245;msg=26 you wrote that $ ls -l /etc/texmf/plain/ total 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2004-03-22 19:52 aleph.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 2004-03-26 20:13 bplain.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:13 etex.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 2001-11-02 01:43 omega.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfbplain.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfetex.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 2004-03-26 20:11 pdftex.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 2005-02-06 01:20 pdfxtex.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2004-03-10 21:36 tex.ini This means that at some time in the past there must have been a symlink /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config -> /etc/texmf/plain otherwise dpkg would not have installed those files there. This was the case before March 7th in 2.99.9.20050111-beta-2 and earlier. Did you have this package installed? > BTW, keeping my system in a broken state is a pain. Should I wait for a > potential fix or fix it myself ? It seems as if it is a problem with upgrading between experimental versions. Since we don't really support this, there's no need to wait for testing. Just remove /etc/texmf/plain and reinstall again. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
