Bug#418976: Various bugs regarding context
Hi all! Hi Frank!
Thanks all for the bug reports regarding ConTeXt.
As far as my understanding goes the problem is the following:
- tetex (old) and texlive 2005 leaves stuff in /var/lib/texmf
- new texlive packages and transitional tetex packages do not clean up
this mess
- context uses ctxfmtutil which:
. has a bug concerning the format metafun
. which uses texexec which puts metafun not into web2c/metapost
. !!! which will go away with the next upload
As a temporary solution for all of you please do:
- remove .mem .fmt files in /var/lib/texmf/web2c
- call update-fmtutil
- call fmtutil-sys --all
After this
- all formats should be regenerated into the respective subdirectories
- context should be installable
The above problems will be solved (hopefully soon):
- context will get an upgrade and will use the default fmt.d config
files as do all other texlive packages.
I will try to move the texlive-context config file, but NOT the
texmf/context/formats.cnf file. If you made changes, sorry please
transfer them by hand.
- new incarnation of texlive packages will (probably) clean up the mess
generated in the /var/lib/texmf/web2c directory left over from tetex
packages and old texlive packages. We need this anyway.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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