Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing
I (frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)) wrote:
> However, if pdflatex fails because a file is in tetex-extra instead of
> tetex-base, then it seems to me that either tetex-bin had to depend on
> tetex-extra (which doesn't make sense) or that file should have been
> moved to tetex-bin.
>
> I have tried to reproduce the bug, but had problems with pbuilder
> creating a woody chroot, so I am not sure about this.
[stupid pbuilder setup error fixed]
Yes, in woody pdflatex (and probably more binaries, see below) won't run
unless tetex-extra is installed. In the current tetex, the respective
files are in tetex-base.
Therefore this bug is yet fixed, and for woody users there are two
possibilities:
a) install tetex-extra
b) get the individual *.ini files and run update-fmtutil (I think this
is the right one, isn't it?). Probably running
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-{base,bin}.postinst as root will work too.
I think we should keep this bug open (because people usually don't look
at archived bugs even when reporting for woody), but tag it "fixed,
woody", shouldn't we?
JFTR, below is the output upon configuring tetex-extra that shows which
format files could only be generated then.
Bye, Frank
Setting up tetex-extra (1.0.2+20011202-2) ...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/spool/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
Running initex for missing formats. This may take some time. ...
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem successfully generated.
Output of initex is in /tmp/texH9ktts
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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