Bug#872012: [tex-common] Installing fails due to fmtutil failure
severity 872012 normal
tags 872012 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks
Hi Holger,
> in a clean sid chroot, I tried to install tex-common package, which fails,
> because of fmtutil failure:
Very unlikely that you only installed tex-common into a clean chroot,
because there are many formats that need at least texlive-latex-base.
Here is a log that shows a *real* installation into a clean chroot:
root@bulldog:/root/# cowbuilder --login
I: Copying COW directory
I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585
I: forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585
I: removed stale ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585/.ilist
I: Invoking pbuilder
I: forking: pbuilder login --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 --no-targz --internal-chrootexec 'chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 cow-shell'
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: copying local configuration
I: mounting /proc filesystem
I: mounting /sys filesystem
I: creating /{dev,run}/shm
I: mounting /dev/pts filesystem
I: redirecting /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx
I: mounting /dev/pts/3 over /dev/console
I: policy-rc.d already exists
I: Obtaining the cached apt archive contents
I: entering the shell
root@bulldog:/# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid InRelease [228 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages.diff/Index [27.9 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en.diff/Index [27.9 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages.diff/Index [27.8 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0216.43.pdiff [14.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [4358 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [4358 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0216.43.pdiff [3950 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [408 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [567 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [567 B]
Fetched 336 kB in 1s (278 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@bulldog:/# apt-get install tex-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
ucf
Suggested packages:
debhelper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tex-common ucf
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/636 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1047 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package ucf.
(Reading database ... 14688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/ucf_3.0036_all.deb ...
Moving old data out of the way
Unpacking ucf (3.0036) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tex-common.
Preparing to unpack .../tex-common_6.07_all.deb ...
Unpacking tex-common (6.07) ...
Setting up ucf (3.0036) ...
Setting up tex-common (6.07) ...
update-language: texlive-base not installed and configured, doing nothing!
root@bulldog:/#
Don't know what to say ...
Norbert
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