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Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed



On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> schrieb:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:58:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> >> > So then: Where does metafun.mp come from?
> >> 
> >> branden@necrotic:~$ dlocate -S metafun.mp
> >> branden@necrotic:~$ locate metafun.mp
> >> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> >> branden@necrotic:~$ dpkg -S usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> >> dpkg: *usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp* not found.
> 
> in unstable and testing, metafun.mp is in
> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/, the location where your file is
> was used in tetex-base_1.0.2, i.e. in woody. 

Okay.  This machine has been steadily upgraded since potato.


branden@necrotic:~$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context
total 212
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 16 20:17 .
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Nov 16 20:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 16 20:17 base
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1346 May 28  2001 metafun.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7117 Jun  2  2000 mp-back.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2274 Jul 27  2000 mp-butt.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25857 Jun  4  2001 mp-char.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        34707 Jan 26  2000 mp-chart.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13281 Jul  4  2001 mp-core.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7112 Apr  6  2001 mp-grph.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7848 Aug  7  2000 mp-page.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10960 Jun  7  2001 mp-shap.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7881 May 31  2001 mp-spec.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11480 Jun  7  2001 mp-step.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5925 Oct 27  2000 mp-text.mp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        47303 Jun 26  2001 mp-tool.mp
branden@necrotic:~$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 16 20:17 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 16 20:17 ..

Some of those dates look suspiciously old.  Did earlier versions of a tetex
package play around with symlinks to directories?

> >> I assure you I didn't put that file there myself.
> >
> > I should note that if usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp was
> > *ever* a conffile and subsequently stopped being shipped by the package,
> > it would *not* be removed by dpkg.
> 
> This file was in tetex-extra also in woody, and it wasn't a conffile
> there. In potato there was no metafun stuff in tetex AFAIS, at least not
> in tetex-base and tetex-extra (checked the deb's from
> ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-archive/dists/potato/main/binary-all/tex/).
> 
> So the question's open where this file comes from. What kind of machine
> is this?

An UltraSPARC IIi with an Ultra aXe motherboard.

> Did you install any remotely TeX-related stuff manuall, i.e. without
> using Debian packages?

No, I did not.

> Or is it 100% Debian Package Management? 

Yes.

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |     encountered a criminal statute it
branden@debian.org                 |     did not like.
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