Bug#61979: tetex-bin: tetex-bin fails in postinst process

[Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 06:01:13PM +0200, piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de wrote:

> While trying to update a slink system to potato, the postinst process of
> tetex-bin failed. Moreover, it just failed without giving any reason
> whatsoever, one reason why I have come to dislike `set -e' during the last few
> days. It seems that in /usr/bin/texconfig, which is called from
> tetex-bin.postinst, there is a failing test for `sh5'. The `set -e' in the
> calling script makes texconfig exiting silently.

My guess is that your /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf is broken.  What gives
   fmtutil --missing
?

Denis