Bug#421969: texlive-base-bin: Huge number of etex and pdfetex sub-processes created
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mit, 23 Mai 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Does this happen generally when old xmltex configuration files are
>> present in a TeX Live 2007 installation? In this case we should do
>> something about it...
>
> Well, stable has 1.9-11.1 which ships etc/texmf/fmt.d/40xmltex.cnf
> without magic comment and without list file, so it will be included by
> update-fmtutil.
It has this home made "mv 40xmltex.cnf 40xmltex.cnf.disable" thing in
postrm. I didn't remember, but found out because upgrading from etch
with xmltex's conffiles to sid and the packages on people.debian.org
works fine.
> Same testings 1.9-11.2.
>
> I guess we should add code to texlive-base-bin or texlive-common, but
> how?
I'm not sure what's the receipe to reproduce the bug, therefore I'm
unsure what we need to do. If we need to take action, and given the sad
state of xmltex as it was before, I suggest we take the freedom to
rename any xmltex conffile to $file.disabled in texlive-common's
postinst if the package is in state rc. I'm just not sure how to find
that out properly.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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