[Fink-devel] tetex upgrade problems

[Anthony DeRobertis]

[Sorry, I didn't keep build logs...]

I just did a fink update-all, and had a much less-than-pleasant experience with tetex. Well, actually, the lyx build is still running, so I'm still having it. Hopefully it all works now...

This experience involved nice things like having to use dpkg --force a time or two (files existing in multiple packages). Having to manually remove dvipdf (or was it dvips, sorry, don't remember...) [and thus lyx] because it conflicted with the new version of tetex.

Then, to top it all off, tetex-base postinst asked me to re-install tetex-texmf....[0]

A dpkg -r later, it's time for fink install lyx. Hope it works...

What's going on with tetex? I finally found a note in the mailing list archives about some of this, but now I'm curious: Why?

And, is there anything I can do to help kill this evil mess?

[0] Reading the postinst, this seems to be when a certain file is missing. What ever happened to this file? And there are certainly better ways to deal with this than asking for a manual re-install...



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