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



On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:34:37AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > branden@necrotic:~$ dpkg -l tetex-extra
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > ||/ Name                                          Version                                       Description
> > +++-=============================================-=============================================-==========================================================================================================
> > ii  tetex-extra                                   1.0.2+20011202-2                              extra teTeX library files
> 
> Uups? In a mail from Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:33:12 -0500 you wrote to the
> same bug:
> 
> > What is the version of tetex-extra?
> 
> necrotic:~# dpkg -l tetex-extra
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                         Version                                      Description
> +++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
> pn  tetex-extra                                  <none>                                       (no description available)
> 
> Was tetex-extra-1.0.2 in fact installed when the bug occurred first?

No.

> If not, how come that it is now installed?

Because I installed it to see what would happen.

> Note that we said these files "should not be there"  because
> 
> - they are part of tetex-extra, which you said weren't installed
> 
> - they were at the location where they are on your system only in
>   tetex-1.0, and since you reported this against 2.0.2-12 we assumed you
>   were using unstable.
> 
> If yes, we need to check whether the (quite unlikely) coexistence of
> tetex-bin_2.0.2 and tetex-base_2.0.2 with tetex-extra_1.0.2 causes the
> problem, and thus we need a conflicts. 
> 
> This is all very confusing.
> 
> >> As for the other problems - could you send us an ls -l of that directory
> >> that should be a symlink, /usr/share/texmf/web2c/?
> >
> > branden@necrotic:~$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/
> > total 10840
> 
> I didn't check this in detail, but it looks just like a "copy" of the
> directory were the link should point to. This includes some files that
> are _not_ generated, but shipped in the deb, namely the *.pool and *.tcx
> files - something/one must have copied them from
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c. Also it seems that "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin"
> was executed after the link was removed and the empty directory
> generated, and answered with a non-default answer (at least fmtutil.cnf
> as a symlink is not the default now, I'm not sure about the past).
> 
> Did you notice any tetex mess previously and tried to repair it
> manually? It looks like this.

No, I did not.

Even *with* tetex-extra installed, dpkg doesn't think any installed
package owns any files in /usr/share/texmf/web2c.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     Human beings rarely imagine a god
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     that behaves any better than a
branden@debian.org                 |     spoiled child.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Robert Heinlein

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