Bug#267886: tetex-bin: fmtutil error on metafun

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Kovarththanan Rajaratnam" <krj@rajaratnam.dk> schrieb:

> Hey
>
> Looking more closely at #244601, I decided to install tetex-extra. This
> works like a charm. The error is gone now.
>
> Does tetex-bin depend on tetex-extra?

No, it doesn't. The point is that tetex-bin tries to build all formats
for which the file(s) indicated in fmtutil.cnf are available.

$ grep metafun /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 
metafun         mpost           -               metafun.mp

Thus, as long as metafun.mp is not on the system, tetex-bin won't try to
create the metafun format. metafun.mp is in tetex-extra, therefore it
shouldn't even try to build metafun.mem unless tetex-extra is installed.

On your system it did. Please send us the output of

ls /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/

metafun.mp really shouldn't be in this directory, but it was there in
older versions of tetex-extra, and has been found there after
tetex-extra had been removed in one or two cases - yours could be the
third. 

If it is not there, it must be somewhere else. If you have dlocate
installed, then please post the output of

dlocate metafun.mp

(with a reasonable up-to-date database, "update-dlocatedb" will do
that). If you haven't, please do

cd /where/you/were/when/the/error/occurred
mv /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp.bak
kpsewhich metafun.mp
mv /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp.bak /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp

and send us the output of the kpsewhich call.

Many thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie