Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:09:28AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > is not searched, as one can see from the output of kpsewhich:
>>
>> The strange thing is that we have the code in tex-common's postinst
>> script to check for this.
>>
>> John, which version of tex-common is installed? By the way, tetex-bin's
>> reportbug control script is missing, I'm currently investigating this.
>
> I actually upgraded it after you mentioned this, so I don't know what
> version it was.
Aha, so the problem was either a too-old tex-common that didn't contain
the necessary config options, or a too-old tex-common that didn't do the
proper checks.
Does that mean we can close the bug?
> But I had rejected the updates to the conffiles because I had some
> custom things in there to increase memory limits for various items. I
> wonder if it would be possible to make the upgrade work even if existing
> conffiles are kept?
No, unfortunately not. We're only checking for the specific items that
really need to be changed, and give a clear error message if the
settings won't work. And I've just committed a change to the repository
so that you don't have to fix ist step by step, but instead it performs
all the checks and only exits in the end when one or more failed.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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