On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:30 -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:17:11PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been caught by (closed) bug #531595 > > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531595 ) > > > > It says it's closed, and fixed - and was important to fix in etch, since > > that's where the problem is/was. > > > > However, texlive-latex-base still refuses to install on this etch > > machine. > > > > Can anyone help me understand what's going on in that bug thread, and > > how I can make it install? Do I need to add an additional repo? > > > > And yes, I know upgrading to lenny is the real answer - this is one of > > the steps towards that ... > > The bug has been fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13, which was uploaded to > oldstable-proposed-updates. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have > made it's way into oldstable, as is revealed here: > > [ku...@bluemoon ~] rmadison texlive-bin > texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | etch-m68k | source > texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | oldstable | source > texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-13 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source > texlive-bin | 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2 | stable | source > texlive-bin | 2009-5 | testing | source > texlive-bin | 2009-5 | unstable | source > > Contrast this with the "stable" version, which has migrated from > stable-proposed-updates to stable.
Sorted. After I realised you were talking about texlive-bin, while texlive-latex-base is built from texlive-base, I read the reports a little more thoroughly. It turns out (though this was still not clear from the reports) that if I upgraded texlive-base-bin (and texlive-pdfetex, though I suspect that's irrelevant)(which are built from texlive-bin) from oldstable-proposed-updates, that changed something (probably fmtutil) which enabled the existing texlive-latex-base to install. A bit tortuous, but I got there :-) Thanks Kumar. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
