Bug#419016: texlive-base-bin: fmtutil does not keep log file after build failure

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

there are two ways a format generation can fail:  Either the tex command
exits nonzero, or there is an error sign in the logfile.  fmtutil keeps
the logfile only in the second case:

  mkdir -p $fulldestdir
  if test -f $fmtfile; then
    grep '^! ' $format.log >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
      log_failure "\`$engine -ini $tcxflag $jobswitch $prgswitch $texargs' possibly failed."
    rm -f "$fulldestdir/$format.log"
    # We don't want user-interaction for the following "mv" commands:
    mv "$format.log" "$fulldestdir/$format.log" </dev/null
    if mv "$fmtfile" "$fulldestdir/$fmtfile" </dev/null; then
      verboseMsg "$progname: $fulldestdir/$fmtfile installed."
      #
      $mktexfmtMode && $mktexfmtFirst \
      && echo "$fulldestdir/$fmtfile" && mktexfmtFirst=false
      #
      mktexupd "$fulldestdir" "$fmtfile"
    fi
  else
    log_failure "\`$engine -ini $tcxflag $jobswitch $prgswitch $texargs' failed"
  fi

Which is annyoing in particular for debugging the failure of jadetex
when tl-lang-cyrillic is installed.

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