Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
On 25.07.09 Robert G. Ristroph (rgr@sdf.lonestar.org) wrote:
Hi,
> The reason why I presume this is not the same as #534199, is that
> in the /tmp/tetex.fmutil.* log file, the file doesn't stop at the
> "file older than 5 years" message. The message is a warning, and
> the output of pdfetex continues after it.
>
Weird indeed. IIRC the problem consisted of two parts:
1. fmtutil failed if the "file older than 5 years" messages appeared
2. The format mllatex needs the scrollmode to generate the format
successfully (this is #534199).
As you had the version, which should have the fix for 1. you should
only run in 2. . I'd expect that the generation of mllatex.fmt fails,
but I can't find this message in your log.
> However, after digging through some directories in a debian mirror,
> I got the texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb file and I
> installed it with "dpkg -i" (the output above is from before that).
> The install worked, and latex seemed mostly working afterwards.
>
Fine.
> P.S. Why do you think Donald Knuth decided to warn himself against
> processing files older than 5 years? The old guy probably has
> many of those, right?
>
This is a warning from LaTeX, which was never written/maintained by
DEK. I guess the LaTeX team would like to prevent people from using
old versions of LaTeX and running in old old (long fixed) bugs.
Greets,
H.
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