The horrible infinite-loop detected bug
Ok, I have written some code that on upgrade of texlive-base in preinst
removes the offending lines from 10texlive-base-bin.cnf by commenting
them and gives a warning.
Maybe at least someone can review the code, give his comments, or whatever.
tmpfile=`mktemp`
oldfile=/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf
newfile=/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf
if [ -r $oldfile ] ; then
found_firstline=0
disable_from_now=0
cat $oldfile | while read line ; do
# we have to find those old lines
case "$line" in
"# The following added lines have been transferred from"*)
found_firstline=1
echo "$line" >> $tmpfile
;;
"# /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf"*)
echo "$line" >> $tmpfile
if [ $found_firstline = 1 ] ; then
# disable all following lines
echo "# The following lines are disabled to protect loops" >> $tmpfile
echo "# Please see Debian bug #557091 for details" >> $tmpfile
disable_from_now=1
fi
;;
*)
if [ $disable_from_now = 1 ] ; then
echo "# $line" >> $tmpfile
else
echo "$line" >> $tmpfile
fi
;;
esac
done
echo "Some formats have been disabled in $oldfile" >&2
echo "Please review the changes!" >&2
mv $tmpfile $newfile
fi
Herzliche Grüße
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force
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