Bug#478992: update-texmf: Basic configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf missing.
"A. Costa" <agcosta@gis.net> wrote:
> Hmm, maybe the config files are in a different package. 'dlocate'
> reports those are in 'tetex-bin':
>
[...]
> Now here I find there was no 'tetex-bin' in my cache, (a recent space
> saving backup),
These files were part of tetex-bin in *oldstable*, while even in stable
they are in tex-common. On the other hand, your system claims to be
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
That sounds as if you didn't properly dist-upgrade somehow long ago.
> Looks OK, did it work? No:
That's expected, since tetex-bin is now just an empty transitional
package.
> It looks like 'tetex-bin' is missing some files, or it used to have them
> and they're now in some other package. What package has those config files?
tex-common, in etch, lenny, sid. The problem with --force-confmiss is
that those files are under ucf control, not dpkg control, and ucf
doesn't understand --force-confmiss.
In other days, I'd had been able to give you a solution at once, but
currently I am so out of these ucf things that I cannot - and I must
leave now, so I'm sending this e-mail anyway.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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