Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ralf, hi Norbert,
Still no answer... >> Should we just go on and let tetex-base's and tetex-extra's postinst >> call >> >> create_tetex_formats --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf >> >> I think that would help, too, at least with jadetex and friends. > > There's an other potential problem here. If a new tetex-base contains a > change that requires the LaTeX formats to be regenerated, it might well > be that other formats that preload LaTeX during format generation also > need to be rebuilt. The same then is also true for a TeXlive based > system. > > But somehow this seems to be a more general problem. Even a format that > does not preload LaTeX might become unusable, and it might even require > configuration file changes before it works again. Just imagine that it > turns out that some hyphenation patterns are non-free and need to be > removed. A package that keeps its own language.dat won't work any > more. > > So should we simply ignore such potential problems, and go on with using > --cnffile during format renewal? Or rather try to recreate all of them? > We should also consider what the effect would have been for jadetex or > xmltex users on the previous frequent bugs if we had already only > regenerated our own formats. Hm, I guess they mostly were related to > changes in tetex-bin, weren't they? I think I'll use the --cnffile switch for tetex-base and tetex-extra. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)