Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:53 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>
> > fmtutil: running `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' ...
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
> > Sorry, I can't find the format `latex.fmt'; will try `jadetex.fmt'.
> > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> Could it be that, because we remove latex.fmt, but not jadetex.fmt, it
> tries to preload the old jadetex.fmt which then fails? But why is not
> latex.fmt created instead?
This is an odd problem, indeed. The beginning looks fine. Since
latex.fmt has been rmoved, fmtutil-sys wants to create it:
| Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version
| Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
| kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
But then the there is the error message
| mktexfmt: format `latex' not available.
This should come from the function create_one_format() in fmtutil after
'find_info_for_name latex' has failed. find_info_for_name() first
searches the config file and then uses parse_line(), the return code of
which is used for find_info_for_name(), too. And the return code of
parse_line() is defined by a kpsewhich call looking for the ini file for
the particular format.
The different commands in my other email tried to build these different
steps 'by hand' looking for the place and maybe reason of failure.
cheerio
ralf
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