Bug#531581: Bug#530832: fails to remove: attempted use of update-texmf-config in postrm.
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Frank, hi all,
>
> On Do, 28 Mai 2009, lamont@debian.org wrote:
>> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.postrm: line 124: update-texmf-config: command not found
>
> On Do, 28 Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
>> This is really strange, but given that we didn't make any changes to
>> texlive in the last weeks, I don't see how it's related to our packages.
>
> I am not sure. It might be that the packages actually have a problem:
>
> In tex-common postrm-texlsr part we do
> case "$1" in
> remove|disappear)
> dhit_check_run_without_errors -silent update-updmap --quiet
> dhit_check_run_without_errors -silent update-language
> dhit_check_run_without_errors -silent update-fmtutil
>
> but further down in the part from postrm-tex we call:
> case "$1" in
> remove|disappear)
> for i in allformats map ; do
> if [ "$i" = map ] ; then
> update-texmf-config updmap
>
>
> which assumes that tex-common is installed and configured. Isn't it the
> reason that wecalled update-updmap etc as above with the
> dhit_check_run_without_errors because exactely of that problem?
No, I don't think so. I think the reason for
dhit_check_run_without_errors is although all declared dependency
relations are fulfilled, we got problems during the upgrade of
libkpathsea. I'm not sure why this couldn't be solved by adding a
"Depends: libkpathsea4" to tex-common - but that's how we did it. We
need to look that up in the archives.
Anyway, if texlive-$foo depends on tex-common, then it may assume that
tex-common in its postinst unless it's purged:
,---- Policy 7.2
| The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm
| scripts require the package to be present in order to run. Note,
| however, that the postrm cannot rely on any non-essential packages to
| be present during the purge phase.
`----
> Strange that texlive-baseis removed *AFTER* tex-common on which it
> depends is removed and purged. Hmm, I guess I miss something here.
See my other mail to the bug.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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