Bug#354604: fmtutil-sys spits TeX output on stderr (was: Bug#354604: tetex-bin: way too much output during package upgrade)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Frank!

On Mit, 01 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> The problem is that, when "fmtutil-sys --all" is called, latex.fmt is
> created fine, but it is still in the temporary directory when
> jadetex.fmt is to be created, and therefore not found.
> 
> I think the solution is to add the temporary format build directory to
> TEXINPUTS in fmtutil.  Norbert, can you please check whether this
> problem also exists in texlive - maybe there's already a fix from
> upstream?
> 
> apt-get install jadetex
> rm /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
> fmtutil-sys --all > tempfile

This does the following things:
- it creates all formats, including jadetex
- it spits out the stuff when generating the latex format

So I would say the same problem exists in TeX live.

Best wishes

Norbert

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