Bug#395032: tex-common: fails to install
Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> reporting a bug to this package turned out to be a pleasant experience,
> thanks much!
You are welcome.
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:33:49AM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' \
>> | egrep -q '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//' ; echo $?
>
> ibr@zaisan:~$ echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' |egrep '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//'; echo $?
> egrep: Invalid content of \{\}
> 2
> ibr@zaisan:~$ which egrep
> /bin/egrep
> ibr@zaisan:~$ dpkg -S /bin/egrep
> grep: /bin/egrep
> ibr@zaisan:~$ dpkg -l grep
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii grep 2.4.2-3 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
>
>
> Installing 2.5.1.ds2-6 solved the problem, you might wish to add the
> respective dependency.
Version 2.4.2.-3 is from woody, right? This syntax for grep does work
for version 2.5.1.ds1-4, which is in sarge. So this looks like whether
or not we want to support woody -> etch upgrades.
cheerio
ralf
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