Re: updated teTeX beta

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi all,

I have a question.  When I installed my experimental 
tetex-bin, I got an error as follows;

=========================
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
Error: `tex -ini  -fmt=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini  -fmt=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.\
ini' failed
Error: `tex -ini  -fmt=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini  -fmt=pdfxmltex -progname=pdfxmltex &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini\
' failed
=========================

And their log files said;

=========================
running `tex -ini   -fmt=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' ...
This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.8) (INITEX)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)


running `pdftex -ini   -fmt=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadete\
\
x.ini' ...
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel (Web2C 7.3.8) (INITEX)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
=========================

This kind of error will occur when there is some inconsistency,
I suspect.

But what inconsistency in this case?  latex.fmt etc. is already
rebuilt in this stage, isn't it ?

Anyway, I suspect that, in postinst, if 
"$TEXCONFIG_P init > $TEMPFILE" fails (or returns error code), 
we should run it again in some way.

Is there any simple and cool modification ?

Best regards,		     2002/10/19

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.