Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> wrote:

> Why not use something like this:

While putting together all those suggestions, just some comments on this code:

>
> echo "Running initex..."
> TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/tetex-bin.postinst.initex.XXXX` || exit 1

if mktemp fails, the postinst script will exit anyway. The '|| exit 1'
part is not needed.

> if initex > $TMPFILE; then
> 	rm -f $TMPFILE
> else
> 	echo "initex exited with code $?... output stored in $TMPFILE"

fmtutil does not give fance exit codes, it has only 0 and 1. Therefore I
am not going to take this.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie