Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails - additional info from cont-en.log
On Friday 20 December 2002 10:05, you wrote:
> From: Geert-Jan Hut <Geert.Jan.Hut@hutsoftware.nl>
> Subject: Re: Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails -
> additional info from cont-en.log Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:55:36 +0100
>
> > 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'.
>
> No, the maintainer of alml completely misunderstand the
> scheme of update-texmf. He should not provide 94alml.cnf
> as a conffile but a configuration file then the modified
> file is never, never overwritten by the package.
Ok, but maybe the two of you should get in touch with one another, as we now
have this circular dependency situation, in which both packages do not
install without manual intervention.
I saw that bug 172517 is basically the same problem, and is already closed. So
I assume that it is not a big problem resolving this situation.
But It could of course be that I am the one seeing problems where they don't
exist ;-)
Anyway, thanks for your help..
--
GJ.
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