Bug#251238: tetex-bin fails configuration
On 28.05.04 Juan Carlos Amengual Argudo (jcamen@lsi.uji.es) wrote:
> Mensaje citado por Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>:
Hi,
> > The first should be
> > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat, and this should
> > be a link pointing to /etc/texmf/language.dat. If
> >
> That's OK.
>
drachi:~# for i in `locate language.dat`; do grep cahy $i; echo $i; done
/etc/texmf/lambda/language.dat
/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat
/usr/share/texmf/omega/lambda/base/language.dat
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
%catalan cahyph.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/language.dat
/var/lib/texmf/language.dat
drachi:~# kpsewhich language.dat
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
drachi:~#
On my system the cahyph comment only exists in a language.dat, which
will not by found by kpsewhich. Maybe it was once copied.
> > cahyph.tex is mentioned in this file, you or some other
> > administrator on your machine, or an installation script for
> > something else put it there. This is perfectly okay (it's a
> > conffile, after all). But then you should also have cahyph.tex in
> > the search path:
> >
> > kpsewhich cahyph.tex
>
> No, I have no cahyph.tex in the search path. But in language.dat
> cahyph.tex is mentioned. Somer users speak catalan so as
> administrator I used texconfig and uncomment the line referring to
> cahyph.tex. I've been using testing in this computer since almost a
> year. I remember at least two tetex-bin updates.
>
OK, you may edit language.dat and comment in more languages. Thanks
the Frank the changes will be preserved, even when you use debconf.
But you should make sure, that the appropriate hyphenation patterns
are available.
> > By the way: You can enable debconf management for language.dat
> > and still edit entries yourself, or add some. debconf will
> > preserve your changes.
>
> I'd rather prefer using texconfig. But thans for your suggestion.
>
Feel free to use texconfig. debconf and texconfig shouldn't
interfere, but debconf will know only these language, we tell him.
> Well, I have used texconfig to edit language.dat and I have
> commented the line referring to cahyph.tex and voilà! ;-) Now
> tetex-bin is OK in my system. so I think this bug can be happily
> closed. Thanks a lot for your soon answer. Your time and efforts
> are greatly appreciated.
>
Thanks very much. Would you be so kind to close that bug by sending
an E-Mail with a short explanation to 251238-done@bugs.debian.org?
Regards,
Hilmar
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