Bug#334660: tetex-bin: doesn't install, "can't read texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory"

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

tags #334660 unreproducible

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:45:42AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-9) ...
> >
> > An essential entry in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf is missing. Fixing
> >
> > sed: can't read texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> >
> > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf exists.
> >
> > After manually adding TEXMFSYSVAR to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and
> > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/teXMF.cnf, the install proceeded.
> [...]
> > Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
> [...]
> > ii  tetex-base                2.0.2c-9       Basic library files of teTeX
> 
> tetex-bin 3.0-9 depends on tetex-base (>= 3.0-4), which depends on
> tex-common.  tex-common provides a sane 05TeXMF.cnf, but additionally
> tetex-bin introduces TEXMFSYSVAR into texmf.cnf even if it is missing -
> exactly to prevent this bug from happening.

I reported the bug from a different system than the one the bug
happened on. The originating system cannot send e-mail. So, please do
not rely on the package versions listed. Sorry for botching this.

> And do you think you can reproduce this bug (e.g. by going back to the
> old state of the conffiles) and have the tetex-bin postinst script run
> with set -x in the function sanitize_texmfcnf?

I cannot even reproduce the bug in a test chroot :-(

Sorry, I cannot help here.

Greetings
Marc

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