Re: FTBFS because building fonts fails
Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> > On 04.07.08 Michael Tautschnig (mt@debian.org) wrote:
>> >
>> >> ======================
>> >>
>> >> Running mktextfm ptmr8t
>> >> mkdir: cannot create directory `././home/buildd/.texmf-var': Permission denied
>> >>
>> > This is an error message, which looks not good.
>>
>> Definitely not, although I guess it won't even try to write to that
>> directory once tl-fonts-recommended is installed. But you should debug
>> this.
>>
>> What is the output of
>>
>> $ grep ^VARTEXFONTS /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
>> $ grep MT_FEATURES /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
>>
>
> As just stated in the other (new) thread on ppl, this problem has gone away by
> adding texlive-fonts-recommended,
No, I think it hasn't, because there are actually two problems (the
permission denied and the TFM not found error), only one of which leads
to a FTBFS, and only this one has been fixed.
If the home directory is not writeable or does not exist and cannot be
created, then mktextfm should try to write into /tmp/texfonts. And I
just checked that it "usually" does, by creating a user without homedir
in a sid chroot, changing to that user and running allcm.
So it seems that the setup on that buildd is screwed. With the 0.9-3
build of ppl, it happened on amd64, s390, hppa, sparc, but not on ia64,
mipsel and mips. So it seems that quite a lot of our buildds behave in a
way that the TeX packages (and their maintainers) didn't expect. This
could mean that the local admins refused some conffile update, or that
there is a bug in our packages.
I'd rather understand this, but won't have time to get in contact with
the buildd admins right now (Hendrik Julian has just been born...)
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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