Re: Hyphenation in TL2008
On Do, 21 Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> - one or more source packages created "the traditional way", using
> >> texlive.tlpdb. Here the bin packages would contain all input and
> >> configuration files.
> >
> > Right, that is the idea.
> >
> > That way we would also get rid of the format problem stuff. Because
> > formats would be created in the normal packages, and the binaries are
> > already present in any case.
>
> In the old days, we had the additional problem that formats need to be
> recreated with new versions of the binaries. I'm not sure whether this
> was always the case or only sometimes, and whether it is still true now
> that pool files are gone (are they?).
>
> But coult it might mean that we need to trigger format creation
> e.g. after a patch to pdftex has been applied?
Or simply call fmtutil-sys --all in the postinst of the respective
packages.
Best wishes
Norbert
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