Bug#520042: texlive-base: Fails to generate formats on new installation(?)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Di, 17 Mär 2009, Riku Voipio wrote:
> That buildd chroot has since beet autocleaned. But this is reproducible
> in local pbuilder as well.

How did you do it? With
	pbuilder --build gnuplot....dsc

> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
> I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!

I just now installed texlive-latex-base in a clean pbuilder and it
worked without any problems, there was tex.log and tex.fmt ...

Very strange.

Best wishes

Norbert

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