Bug#266497: apt-get install textex-bin fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

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

> From: Thomas Iversen <thomassi@dina.kvl.dk>
> Subject: Bug#266497: apt-get install textex-bin fails
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:17:41 +0200
>
>> www:/home/zensonic# apt-get install tetex-bin
> ...
>> Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
>> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
>> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
>
> Seems good.
>
>> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
>> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
>
>> I haven't touch anything and fmtutil.cnf exists:

Some general remarks:

I think the postinst should only *try* to do its work (running mktexlsr,
update-*, fmtutil), and still exit 0 if it cannot. This will not make
the packages better, but it will drop the severity of bugs, because the
installation can proceed without errors.

I doubt, however, that just adding a || true to all those lines makes
sense, and I fear we have to postpone this to after sarge.

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