Bug#443237: "Me too": #443237: texlive-base-bin requires omega during configure

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.11.07 A. Costa (agcosta@gis.net) wrote:
> On Sep 20 2007, Hilmar Preusse replied to Daniel Pocock:

Hi A.,

> > Something weird on your system. I guess your fmtutil.cnf contains an
> > entry for omega, although that program is not available. Actually my
> > system contains the fmtutil.cnf two times: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> > and /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and I guess the
> > generated file in /var is used. Does the file
> > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf exist? If yes, could you post it? If
> > not, check for /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and give us
> > that one.
> 
> Apparently my system has the same bug.  When installing I saw:
> 
>     Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007.dfsg.1-1) ...
>     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.WAg14785
>     Please include this file if you report a bug.
> 
> The last two lines of '/tmp/fmtutil.WAg14785' (attached) are:
> 
>     This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
>     `omega -ini  -jobname=omega -progname=omega omega.ini' failed
> 
> Re: the diagnostic questions.  On my system the two 'fmtutil.cnf'
> files exist:
> 
>     % ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5443 Jan 23  2007 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6287 Nov  7 01:51 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> 
> Both files are attached.  Unfortunately I botched the 'var/lib'
> one, since I attached it right after installing 'texlive-omega', (after
> which 'texlive' installed without errors).  So the two attached files
> are now these:
> 
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5443 Jan 23  2007 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8194 Nov  7 02:16 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> 
> After adding 'texlive-omega' the latter file grew by 2K or so.
> 
OK, fine. Could you de-install (for testing) the texlive-omega
package? Do the entries for omega disappear now from
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf?

>  Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
> total 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Aug 16  2006 mktex.cnf
> ######################################
>  md5sums of texmf.d
> 25bf3a257a0bedb5c67349c3eaff74af  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
> 
hille@kloetzer:/etc/texmf/texmf.d $ md5sum 05TeXMF.cnf
298033b10647b50b2aac3701f6497ffa  05TeXMF.cnf

Your 05TeXMF.cnf has been modified. Could you post that too?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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