> > Norbert suggested to delete /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf and > > run update-fmtutil: > > update-fmtutil: cannot read /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf > > I don't think this was a good advice (or maybe he meant 00tetex.cnf? > 01tetex.cnf? I suppose he meant 00tetex.cnf, so any stupidity is my fault, not his. Since I had no 00tetex.cnf and I wasn't sure which file Norbert meant, I moved 00tex.cnf away, ran update-fmtutil, and then moved 00tex.cnf back. Just to make sure that this doesn't solve the problem. So no harm done by this check. > First of all, you need a 00tex.cnf. Thanks, very kind of you. > I attach one. Second, the > attachments you made in the other mail show that it is 99postinst.cnf > that causes your continued problems. Thanks, this solved the problem. > All these entries for mfw and mf come from teTeX in woody. In other > words, during the upgrade from woody to sarge, you have chosen to keep > the settings for these four formats at their old values. Not knowingly. As a user I have no idea to which settings the setup program is referring, and of course I want to keep my formats. If you see a message like this, then you assume that the installation is aware of the installed formats and programs and will upgrade them, but you wouldn't expect that the installation procedure takes an old configuration file and tries to build the formats regardless of whether the programs/formats are installed or not. > So this part of the bug seems to be not a bug, but a particular local > configuration. You can safely delete 99postinst.cnf, after that texlive > should configure fine. In my opinion it is a bug of tetex to leave a configuration file behind that refers to non-installed programs (the list of formats is no user setting but internal bookkeeping), and it is a bug of texlive (at least of its transition capabilities) to pay attention to this file. I'm not sure whether there is an easy way to avoid this trap without breaking something else, but I'm sure that there will be more people like me having an old 99postinst.cnf: In my case, I never wanted to install tetex, neither on woody nor on sarge. But because of dependencies, some tetex-packages were installed nevertheless, and then afterwards deleted and even purged by me, but this file remained. So perhaps texlive installation should try to cope with this particular situation, e.g. by renaming or deleting 99postinst.sh (with some heuristic checks of the contents). Thanks a lot for your help, Gernot
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