Bug#422391: xetex/xelatex complains about xetex.fmt not being found

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Wouter Bolsterlee <uws@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 2007-05-09 klockan 14:03 skrev Frank Küster:
>> Yes, when you run
>>
>> fmtutil-sys --byfmt=xetex
>>
>> as root it tells you in the last line to which location the format is
>> installed.  What does it tell on your system?
>
> No output, unfortunately.

aha.

> I've attached the debug log to this message.

Thanks, that improves my understanding.  There seem to be two problems.
The first and most important is that you don't have any information
about xetex in your fmtutil.cnf.

What's the output of

kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf

both as root and as "uws"?

The second problem is that fmtutil --byfmt=whatever exits without an
error if there is not information about that format in the configuration
file.  That's a feature, at least in some circumstances, but here we get
a problem.

It's a feature when generating all formats, but with byfmt?  I'd say
it's  a bug.

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