Hi Ralf, hi Norbert,
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to
change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base
or jadetex:
Package: tetex-base
Version: 3.0-22
Severity: serious
Tags: pending
From postinst.in:
# if tetex-base is upgraded while tetex-bin is already installed, we must
# call mktexlr, and regenerate the formats and font maps.
clean_texenvironment
TEXINIT_P=
KPSEWHICH=
test -x `which
Frank Küster wrote:
The assumption above is wrong, or at least short-sighted. updmap-sys
and fmtutil-sys can only be called when tetex-bin is there. However, we
*must* call the update script under all circumstances. Otherwise
tetex-bin will be without language information etc. I wonder
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank Küster wrote:
The assumption above is wrong, or at least short-sighted. updmap-sys
and fmtutil-sys can only be called when tetex-bin is there. However, we
*must* call the update script under all circumstances. Otherwise
tetex-bin will be
Frank Küster wrote:
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't understand. Shouldn't tetex-bin call the update-* scripts before
generating formats/map files/...
[Looking into common.functions.in]
It seems it doesn't. IMO that's the bigger problem.
I think every package that installs
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed in principle (see below). However, I think it is also important
that every package that calls fmtutil/updmap/... has to call the
apropriate update-* scripts before, which tetex-bin does not at the moment.
Just imagine that instead of tetex-base it
On Fre, 29 Sep 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote:
A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to
change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base
or jadetex: Right now they regerenate all formats, even though this is
not necessary. Why not have them
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tetex-base would occur. If tetex-bin's postinst would call
update-format, the problematic lines would not be present in fmtutil.cnf
due to the present .dpkg-new file.
I agree, we should get a tetex-bin that does
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