Bug#235401: tetex-bin: Fails to install in chroot

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

From: Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Bug#235401: tetex-bin: Fails to install in chroot
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:57:55 -0800

> Version: 2.0.2-8

First of all, is this 2.0.2-8 specific or there was no
problem with 2.0.2-7?

> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-8) ...
> Generating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf ... done
> Generating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> Error: `tex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed
> Error: `omega -ini  -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed

I tried with my chroot environment but I could't reproduce
this.

> More worryingly, the errors don't cause the postinst to bail out with
> an error, though they do in tetex-extra's postinst.  A look in
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log shows:
> 
> ...
> \l@austrian=\language3
> \l@For=\language4

The above looked strange to me if your setting was as follows.

> * tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]

I have no clue yet what happened to you.

Regards,			 2004-3-1(Mon)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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