Bug#310321: tetex-extra: this bug exists on upgrade from woody to sarge

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.09.05 Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au (Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au) wrote:

Hi,

> > So we need to know whether the right pool file is found.  What is the
> > output of
> >
> >   kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool
> >   ls -l `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`
> >   dpkg -S `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`
> >   md5sum `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`
> >
> 
> aach. it's picking up /usr/local/texmf which is mounted as
> readonly, over NFS. (/usr/local is mounted in this way by most of
> our workstations.) So this may not be a bug after all, except that
> it appears to me to be a regression w.r.t. woody. On our remaining
> woody boxes I have tetex-extra 1.0.2+20011202 installed. Is this
> behaviour I am seeing the result of a fix for wrong behaviour in
> that older version?
> 
Well, even woody never shipped files sitting in /usr/local as this
would be a policy violation. The question is now, why are these files
there: did you upgrade your pdfeTeX to a newer version than woody and
hence needed a newer pool file to generate formats?
Anyway, removing these files and running mktexlsr should fix your
problem.

H.
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