Bug#390129: Rebuilding only provided formats - will that work?

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

>>>> create_tetex_formats --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf
>>>>
>>>> I think that would help, too, at least with jadetex and friends.
>>>
>>> There's an other potential problem here.  If a new tetex-base contains a
>>> change that requires the LaTeX formats to be regenerated, it might well
>>> be that other formats that preload LaTeX during format generation also
>>> need to be rebuilt.  The same then is also true for a TeXlive based
>>> system. 
>
> Why should they have to be rebuild? It sure would be better if they were
> rebuild so that they can use the new and shiny features of the new LaTeX
> :-), but the old format should work just as well.

I was thinking about removed hyphenation patterns, but you're right that
they are stored in the format.  Removing any other file without
providing a substitute is probably a bug.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)