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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 14.08.04 Andreas Gredler (jimmy@g-tec.co.at) wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:41:05AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > > 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.
> 
Please have a look at texmf.cnf for VARTEXMF!

H. 
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