Re: The hated xmltex/jadetex games in combination with new tex-common
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:42:38PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Florent!
>
> On Fre, 04 Aug 2006, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > >> tetex-bin | $texlive-package-that-provides-latex
> > >
> > > But this is not enough, as Depends does not ensure that the packages are
> > > *CONFIGURED* in the right order, or do I miss something?
> >
> > You're missing something... important. :-)
>
> Again me, new data points. It seems that my enlightment has suddenly
> stopped. I DON'T miss something. It is true what you wrote but consider
> this:
>
> - initial status: jadetex, texlive-base-bin and texlive-latex-base are
> installed and configured
> - update of texlive-latex-base and texlive-base-bin takes place, this
> creates files /e/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-latex-base.cnf.dpkg-new
Then dpkg updates conffiles, in particular,
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-latex-base.cnf (assuming this is specified
as a conffile), and only after that:
> - dpkg calls texlive-base-bin postinst, which in turn does:
> . call update-fmtutil
> -> latex is NOT present in the generated fmtutil.cnf, but
> jadetex is
> . call fmtutil-sys --all
> -> everything breaks, as the latex fmt is not present.
So this should be OK.
Julian
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