Re: Back from the mountains / Problem when purging TL 2007?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

>> How did you do that?  "apt-get remove <what>"?  Which parts of TL were
>> installed? 
>
> I used dselect. I think the list of packages I purged before
> reinstalling tetex was the following:
>
> texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-lang-german texlive-metapost
> texlive-lang-french texlive-font-utils texlive-lang-italian
> texlive-science texlive-math-extra texlive-latex-recommended
> texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-latex-base texlive-pstricks
> texlive-lang-spanish texlive-fonts-extra texlive-pictures
> texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-base
> texlive-doc-base texlive-base-bin texlive-common context
> preview-latex-style

I tried the same, with only packages from tug.org (not my newly built
texlive-bin packages).  I used dselect, and I ran into the same problem
you described below for apt-get:

> I just tried to reproduce the problem with apt-get, but failed:
>    - first, the removal of texlive-base-bin failed because of the
>      problem you reported in
>      <[🔎] 87irdah0ej.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
>      (the postrm tried to run fmtutil-sys, which wasn't present anymore);

And used the same solution.

After that, there are still directories and formats
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>, but they do not interfere with teTeX's
workings.


Anyway, I don't think we should bother much about that.  As soon as
TeXlive 2007 is in unstable, there is no way back downgrading to
teTeX-3.0, and those who install from experimental and want to go back
later should be able to handle this.

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