Bug#422391: xetex/xelatex complains about xetex.fmt not being found

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

retitle 422391 fmtutil --byfmt=foo should exit != 0 when no info for foo is available
thanks

Hi Wouter,

I just found that more than two years ago, you submitted a bug report to
the Debian Bugtracking system, but suddenly our conversation stopped.

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> Thanks, that improves my understanding.  There seem to be two problems.
> The first and most important is that you don't have any information
> about xetex in your fmtutil.cnf.
>
> What's the output of
>
> kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf
>
> both as root and as "uws"?

I assume that you have somehow solved this problem. If this is not
correct, please speak up - otherwise this bug will soon be closed.

> The second problem is that fmtutil --byfmt=whatever exits without an
> error if there is not information about that format in the configuration
> file.  That's a feature, at least in some circumstances, but here we get
> a problem.
>
> It's a feature when generating all formats, but with byfmt?  I'd say
> it's  a bug.

This part remains.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg