Bug#337073: tex-common doesn't install (can't chmod ls-R file)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi all,

I have finally sorted this all out.

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> The strange thing is that it is so hard to reproduce.  It depends on the
> precence of apt-utils,

this is true...

> so it means it depends on whether the config
> script is run on its own (before preinst), or is sourced from the
> postinst script.

But this not.  The true reason is that with apt-utils, the config script
is actually run twice: Once before preinst, and once from the postinst
script, as without apt-utils.  This is always the case, and it's one
more reason why maintainer script need to be idempotent (behave the same
if run several times).

Ours wasn't idempotent, but i have already fixed this:  The reason was
the same why the default "cache" wasn't displayed on a fresh install, or
in other words our unconditional db_set call, even if no ls-R files are
present. 

So what I need to do now is to create proper ls-R files (with the magic
comment) if they don't exist, prior to chmod'ing.

Should I also create the ls-R-files that are not managed by debconf?  I
think we should leave this to mktexlsr.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer