David R. Morrison wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>   
>> David Reiser wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I noticed that message, but tetex-base installed fine for me on April
>>> 29 this year when I had to build a new fink on a new machine. Two
>>> dependencies that have changed since then are fontconfig2-dev and
>>> freetype219. For the moment I'm discounting 10.5.7 and xquartz as the
>>> trigger, since the error appears on 10.4.11 too.
>>>       
>> I confirmed for me that indeed the 5y limit is the cause: I reset the
>> date to May, and the reinstallation of tetex-base worked. The 5y
>> deadline seems to be around the 1st of June.
>>     
>
> Yes, this indeed is the problem.
>
> Martin's suggestion that we should all convert to texlive is the best  
> one, of course, but it will take some time to implement that and make  
> tetex completely obsolete.
>
> In the meantime, I am updating the tetex-texmf package, putting a fake  
> new date in latex.ltx and ltpatch.ltx, which should solve the problem  
> for another five years.
>
>   -- Dave
>
>
>   
We should have done something like that for 10.4-transitional. :-)

I can confirm that the update works for me, and I've posted this as a
fix to a thread on -beginners (possibly the same gnucash2 user).

-- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison


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