Re: Bug#66634: tetex-base: dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure) [Error: kpsewhich cannot find file fmtutil.cnf]
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Subject: Re: Bug#66634: tetex-base: dpkg: error processing tetex-base
(--configure) [Error: kpsewhich cannot find file fmtutil.cnf]
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:39:26 +0200 (CEST)
> Hi Atsuhito,
Hi Adrian,
> > How do you think?
>
> I see two possibilities:
> - unset TEXMF
> - append the right directory at the beginning of TEXMF
>
> I have downgraded the bug on tetex-base because I think it's too late to
> do such a change for potato - I can't see good reasons for setting TEXMF
> as root and I don't want to risk to break anything else at this point of
> the freeze.
Yes, yes of course you are right. What I wanted to ask is
not how to do with this bug report right now but how we should
settle this problem from a long term point of view.
(I am not sure how you say this in English, but I want to
say this is a long term problem or so.)
Furthermore I found some problems.
In texconfig we do
fmtutilcnf=`kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf`
but it seems
fmtutilcnf=`kpsewhich --format=cnf fmtutil.cnf`
is much more robust.
For example if I set TEXMF={/home/kohda/texmf,}
then both find /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
but if I set TEXMF={/home/kohda/texmf:} then
"kpsewhich --format=cnf fmtutil.cnf" find well but
"kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf" does not
as follows.
nsx:~$ echo $TEXMF
{/home/kohda/texmf:}
nsx:~$ kpsewhich --format=cnf fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
nsx:~$ kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf
nsx:~$
Best Regards, 2000.7.5
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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