Bug#574357: texlive-base prompting for conffile changes for no reason

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:52:08PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>On 17.03.10 Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com) wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>> Another upgrade, another set of tex conf file prompts. Sigh.
>> 
>> I'm upgrading from lenny to squeeze today. I've just been prompted
>> about the conf file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf. I have never
>> deliberately installed any tex packages on this system, they've just
>> been pulled in as build-deps from other packages when I'm working on
>> them. I have definitely *never* touched any of the config files. But
>> I'm being prompted about this. Why?
>> 
>What is the md5sum of the old /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf?

Sorry, I couldn't wait around for very long as I needed to get the
machine up and running (new laptop). I said "N" and continued. The
contents of that directory are:

tack:/etc/texmf/fmt.d$ ls -al
total 44
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2010-03-17 15:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-03-17 14:39 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1364 2006-12-11 18:48 00tex.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3328 2007-02-14 21:12 01tetex.cnf.obsolete
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  973 2010-03-17 14:21 10texlive-base.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  626 2010-01-05 03:07 10texlive-base.cnf.dpkg-dist
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  973 2008-08-29 14:12 10texlive-base.cnfpre-edit
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  513 2010-01-05 03:07 10texlive-latex-base.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  345 2010-01-11 14:57 10texlive-math-extra.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  340 2010-01-05 03:07 10texlive-metapost.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  565 2006-11-22 11:19 50cyrtexinfo.cnf

md5sums:

tack:/etc/texmf/fmt.d$ md5sum *
968f2b29eb4089534b9625cd181c25e3  00tex.cnf
cf5cd8fb29d16f191a82992a112010e1  01tetex.cnf.obsolete
3cce09a74353f264444f43635cc33236  10texlive-base.cnf
834bd54eb0afda4adcf738169d7db88d  10texlive-base.cnf.dpkg-dist
3cce09a74353f264444f43635cc33236  10texlive-base.cnfpre-edit
61e7cae20f0f331a2acd3317c445ac65  10texlive-latex-base.cnf
ace279c09a442d6d7d211d1cdb5dac4f  10texlive-math-extra.cnf
c0ca212bb47511bd617e3632e35561e9  10texlive-metapost.cnf
aa280e2a121f027b3b866fcb537750a0  50cyrtexinfo.cnf

Hope that helps...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.