Bug#425803: texlive-base-bin: Version 2007-8 does not configure
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:17 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> wrote:
>
> > I have now upgraded to tetex-base-bin 2007-9 and tetex-base 2007-7 after
> > restoring the conffiles. I assume the other packages will install properly
> > too, will do that now. What puzzles me is that restoring the conffiles did not
> > succeed with 2007-8 and 2007-7, respectively, I had to go back to 2007-7
> > and 2007-6 to do so.
>
> This is really strange. It just worked here with texlive-base_2007-7
> and texlive-base-bin_2007-9: I started in an etch chroot, installed
> tetex-bin, installed texlive which left tetex-base in "rc" state,
> dist-upgraded to sid, and purged tetex-bin and tetex-base. After that,
> "dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base-bin" failed as expected, but it worked
> again after the confmiss action:
>
> root@riesling:/# dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2007-7_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 22598 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007-7 (using .../texlive-base_2007-7_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement texlive-base ...
> Setting up texlive-base (2007-7) ...
>
> Configuration file `/etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf', does not exist on system.
> Installing new config file as you request.
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
> fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/fmtutil.dMD27393
> Please include this file if you report a bug.
>
> dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> texlive-base
> root@riesling:/# dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base-bin_2007-9_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 22598 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace texlive-base-bin 2007-9 (using .../texlive-base-bin_2007-9_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement texlive-base-bin ...
> Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007-9) ...
>
> Configuration file `/etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex', does not exist on system.
> Installing new config file as you request.
>
> Configuration file `/etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps', does not exist on system.
> Installing new config file as you request.
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Building format(s) --all . This may take some time... done.
>
> root@riesling:/#
>
> Do you by chance have the fmtutil tempfiles left from the unsuccessful
> try of confmiss-Installation of the newer versions (2007-8 and 2007-7)?
Unfortunately I have rebooted since the upgrade so the files in /tmp/
are lost. Maybe I can upgrade yet another box from previous texlive
install (have to check) by first purging tetex-bin and installing the
new texlive-base (2007-7) and texlive-base-bin (2007-8). Version 2007-9
of texlive-base-bin seem to work for you as described above. Maybe this
is not even interesting since the latest version is now 2007-9 :-)
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