Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails - additional info from cont-en.log
On Friday 20 December 2002 00:14, you wrote:
> From: Geert-Jan Hut <Geert.Jan.Hut@hutsoftware.nl>
>
> I see, this one is wrong. Please edit this file,
> /etc/texmf/texmf.d/94alml.cnf
> as the following;
>
> %main_memory = 1000000
> font_mem_size = 800000
> %pool_size = 250000
> %hash_extra = 10000
> %buf_size = 100000
> save_size = 40000
>
> that is, only "font_mem_size = 800000" and "save_size = 40000"
> are necessary and others are unnecessary or even harmful.
>
> Then installation will work for you.
Yes, this solves the problem. I successfully ran 'update-texmf' and 'texconfig
init' after this change. I also was able to install tetex-extra with apt-get
upgrade, which previously failed on - i assume - the 'texconfig init' action.
There was only one (obvious) additional problem.
Installing alml again got me the question if I wanted to install the
maintainers version of /etc/texmf/texmf.d/94alml.cnf (as I obviously changed
the file) and the diff between the two versions showed exactly the changes
above.
I chose to keep my newly edited version, but I guess that if I had chosen to
update to the maintainers version - effectively removing the comment signs
('%') - alml would not have been able to install, as I think - looking at the
generated output - that alml also executes 'texconfig init'.
>
> This is certainly a bug of alml.
I agree, but the problem is that by 'compiling' the whole content of
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/, including the alml package files, you create some kind
of circular dependency on alml. In the current situation a new version of
alml will not install without manual intervention, as it depends on
tetex-extra, which also does not install without a new version of alml...
Maybe temporarily including a patched 94alml.cnf file in the tetex-extra
package would help, it would at least break the circular dependency...
But anyway, my problem is solved, and I thank you for that.
GJ.
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