Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 21.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> Two problems:
> 
> - if it turns out later that something went wrong, the file is lost. Not
>   a big issue, since /var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.log is still there.
> 
And a "grep ^! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.log" should not be that hard.

> - What should we do with the "Output of ... is in $TEMPFILE" message? We
>   would have to define a trap and redefine it before the second
>   call. (or use the same tempfile. That's probably better.)
> 
How about:

if `fmtutil --all >> $TEMPFILE`; then rm $TEMPFILE; else echo -e \
"\nSomething went wrong. Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE."; fi

Don't know, how bash-specific that is.

H. 
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