Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:

> From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:13:23 +0200
>
>> undetected. And I doubt whether the current fix (grep for stymied and
>> run fmtutil again) works at all, because the postinst script is executed
>> set -e.
>
> You mean the second call of fmtutil will never execute?

Yes, because the script will exit when the first call of fmtutil returns
with nonzero exit code. However, since the "I'm stymied" message does
not match the '^!' pattern, it could be that sometimes a fmt file can be
created even with "I'm stymied", and then the grep would be executed,
find it and trigger the second run. 

But in the two bug reports you indicated, fmtutil exited, and thus the
second call would have had to be executed manually even with the current
setup, I think.

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