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

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:

> 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?

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.

Based on some of the hints I saw, I was able to reproduce it in a
standard pbuilder chroot by first executing "apt-get --purge remove
apt-utils", then "apt-get install tetex-{bin|extra}".  I use pbuilder
chroots with the non-build-essential packages pruned from them,
including apt-utils, which I guess is why the buildd's and I were
seeing this bug but you couldn't reproduce it.

Let me know if this still isn't enough information to reproduce the
bug.
-- 
Daniel Schepler              "Please don't disillusion me.  I
schepler@math.berkeley.edu    haven't had breakfast yet."
                                 -- Orson Scott Card