On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
Oliver-Mark Cordes <ocordes@astro.uni-bonn.de> wrote:On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:[...] Strange that it says "(/usr/bin/amstex", on my system it's "(./amstex". But anyway.Does tex translate any filename into realnames?Pardon? What do you mean with this question?
From my experience in many TeX documents I found something like\include amstex which includes the first file of amstex.* (or priviledged filename extensions). In the *tex output you always see which real file is included,right?
Hm, I don't think this makes sense, or is even doable. It's a feature that TeX reads files in the current directory - a feature that can also be used for generating customized formats. On the other hand it (the feature) probably doesn't make any sense in the post-installation script. We could fix this by changing directory to / or /tmp. But we cannot be sure that there isn't a file "amstex" in any of these directories. I think it isn't unreasonable to expect that someone wants to create a file "amstex" in /tmp, for whatever reason. But I can't think of a reason to change directory to /usr/bin. Why did you do it?I was packaging own debian-Packages (some python modules and own programs) and checked the installations scripts. This doesn't belong to any normal upgrades ;-)I still don't see a reason to change the current directory to /usr/bin/.
Okay, from the beginning: When I did my upgrade my current directory was /usr/bin and the installation/configuration with dpkg failed. apt-get -f install started from the same directory worked. The reason why I filed a bug report is that from my understanding of the debian policy all packages should be installed from whatever directory possible, right? /usr/bin has nothing to do with the tex-installation for whatever reason my cwd was /usr/bin until I recognized that configuring tetex-base failed because some scripts included teh binary amstex.
From my experience as a programmer/administrator I know that some programs behave differently in different directories. So as a consequence I thought that it would be nice to change the configuration slightly to avoid further problems, because you should expect always the worst case ;-)
I know about this "feature" and sometimes I'm not happy about this, but it is a feature not a bug ;-) But anyway to switch to a "neutral" directory would help.Well, as I said it would cause other breakage (you can't have a file "amstex" in /tmp/ any more, or wherever).PS: I don't send this mail to the BTS because there is no new information regarding the BUG I posted.No new information about your system; but the question is still open whether we need to change anything or not. Obviously you think that the bug shouldn't just be closed (which I would personally prefer), so the discussion what to do instead and why is relevant for that bug, and should be archived? Regards, Frank
Yes, I think the configuration should take care of the directory from which the configuration is started until this BUG can be closed. The idea from Florent to use a temporary directory in /tmp is easy to implement and should work. I don't have the time to test it but it really sounds like a good idea.
Oliver
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