Bug#235401: tetex-bin: Fails to install in chroot
From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Bug#235401: tetex-bin: Fails to install in chroot
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:29:01 +0100
> Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > More worryingly, the errors don't cause the postinst to bail out with
> > an error
>
> This is because we generate the formats by calling texconfig, and this
> script gives a nonzero exit code only when the script itself fails, not
> when one of the tex commands it calls fail.
In old days when LaTeX2e had been released in every 6 month,
generating latex.fmt failed if it had passed more than one
year (? could be one year and a half) after released day
so the above feature was necessary, as far as I remembered.
Regards, 2004-3-1(Mon)
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Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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