Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install
Hi Frank!
(Taking John from the discussion)
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> > So AFAIS the only solution to this is that we go back to the hack of NOT
> > preloading the latex format, but including the stuff in the .ini files.
> > Because jadetex depends on texlive-latex-base we can be sure that the
> > respective files are already installed on the system.
> >
> > But then - Frank - what about files loaded from latex.ini which no
> > reside in /etc/texmf which still have the "new" suffix ... what do you
> > think?
>
> An alternative would be to teach fmtutil about "depending formats" and
> let it skip a format if there is no information for the depended-on
> format, just as it would skip that depended-on format itself.
Another alternative would be to teach update-* about these problems and
do *not* include a snippet which depends on a not available format. But
programming any of these solution seems to be quite hard.
Or, we just do NOT search for an universal solution and hard code the
xmltex and jadetex problems into either fmtutil of update-fontlang.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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