Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>
> It's a little harder with the fmtutil call: Currently, we grep through
> the tempfile for the "I'm stymied" message, 

This does not make sense AFAIS, because fmtutil will grep for errors
itself, and exit 1 if it encounters one. 

I have just committed a change that does essentially the following:

tempfile=`mktemp -p $TMPDIR tetex.postinst.XXXXXXXX`
echo "Running initex. This may take some time. ..."
if $TEXINIT_P > $tempfile; then
  rm -f $tempfile
else
  echo
  echo "fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in"
  echo "$tempfile"
  echo "Please include this file if you report a bug."
  exit 1
fi

For updmap, stderr is redirected, instead. Similar changes also have to
be made to tetex-base's and tetex-extra's postinst. Ah, and regarding
updmap we should have a look at postrm.

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