Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 01.09.05 Laurent Bonnaud (bonnaud@lis.inpg.fr) wrote:

Hi,

> I have attached the fmtutil log file.
> 
> Now here is the info you requested the first time:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/
> total 36
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  66 2004-03-22 19:52 aleph.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 239 2004-03-26 20:13 bplain.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:13 etex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  19 2001-11-02 01:43 omega.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 187 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfbplain.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfetex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 186 2004-03-26 20:11 pdftex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 186 2005-02-06 01:20 pdfxtex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  66 2004-03-10 21:36 tex.ini
> 
> When I compare this with a system where there is no failure it lacks
> this symlink:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 2005-08-18 13:32 language.def -> /etc/texmf/plain/language.def
> 
Well, that symlink is contained in the package tetex-base itself
(i.e. created during build time). Do you have any clue, why it
was not written to the disk?

> $ ls -l /etc/texmf/plain/
> total 36
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  66 2004-03-22 19:52 aleph.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 239 2004-03-26 20:13 bplain.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:13 etex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  19 2001-11-02 01:43 omega.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 187 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfbplain.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 189 2004-03-26 20:11 pdfetex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 186 2004-03-26 20:11 pdftex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 186 2005-02-06 01:20 pdfxtex.ini
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  66 2004-03-10 21:36 tex.ini
> 
> Whereas on my working system I get:
> 
> $ ls -l /etc/texmf/plain/
> total 4
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1275 2005-06-28 20:14 language.def
> 
Well, this is the correct content. I have here a full tetex 3.0
installation tetex-base, -extra, -bin and the dir contains nothing
more than this file. I'm afraid your installation is heavily broken.

Can you (just for fun) purge you teTeX system on the broken machine
and do a complete reinstall 3.0? Does that solve the problem?

H.
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