Bug#344887: Upgrade woody->sarge can fail in some cases
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> 2. I refused to replace the changed 05TeXMF. The code, which should
> have introduced VARTEXMF seemed to fail. Hence updmap.cfg was not
> found.
>
> Frank told me, the first case is to hard to handle -> out of luck.
> We believed we've handeled the second case in the postinst scripts.
> He published a guildline, which should be done:
>
> "I won't have time to investigate this now, but here's what I think
> should be done:
>
> - Check which packages installed files in your texmf.d.tar.bz2
>
> - install those packages in a woody pbuilder
>
> - replace texmf.d by the contents of your tar.bz2
>
> - make preinst and postinst scripts use "set -x", e.g. with the
> contol-overrides mechanism
>
> - Do the upgrade...
> "
>
> AFAICS the only package, which put files into my texmf.d was xmltex.
It would be really nice if someone would take the time and investigate
this...
TIA, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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