Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:09 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> "Liam M. Healy" <lnp@healy.washington.dc.us> wrote:
>> 
>> > Writing extended state information... Done
>> > Preconfiguring packages ...
>> > /tmp/tex-common.config.100881: line 90: [: =: unary operator expected
>> 
>> Hm, that's strange.  The line is:
>> 
>>     if [ $PERMS = $FONTCACHE_PERMS ] ; then
>> 
>> maybe quotes around the variables would be better, but I don't understand
>> what's happening.
>
> Me neither. I does not happen in a clean sid pbuilder.

$ if [ = bla ]; then echo ja; fi
bash: [: =: unary operator expected
$ if [ blubb = ]; then echo ja; fi
bash: [: blubb: unary operator expected
$ if [ '' = bla ]; then echo ja; fi
$ 

So that means that $PERMS is empty.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)