Bug#265611: tetex-extra: Problems with fmtutil again

[Andreas Gredler <jimmy@g-tec.co.at>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:41:05AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

> > Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2a-3) ...
> > Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> > 
> > fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
> > /tmp/tetex-extra.postinst.XXbXoSy4
> > Please include this file if you report a bug.
> > dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> >  Errors were encountered while processing:
> >   tetex-extra
> > 
> Hmm. #263715, #264953, my last mail to #265247?

I've read all bug reports, they are very similar but not the same.

> > I already had to face this problems with the previous versions of
> > tetex-extra and tetex-base. It's solved in tetex-base but in
> > tetex-extra there is still a problem in the postinst script. I
> > fixed it by adding the parameter --cnffile to the call for the
> > commands fmtutil and updmap, but this was just a dirty hack(I'm not
> > sure if I've done it the right way).
> > 
> Probably VARTEXMF is not set in texmf.cnf.

Snipped from the postinst script:

echo "Running initex. This may take some time. ..."
      if $TEXINIT_P --missing > $tempfile; then

and 

TEXINIT_P="/usr/bin/fmtutil"

So there is no variable used. But I didn't have time to figure out how
fmtutil was called in the previous versions of tetex-extra. 

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