On 04.07.10 Michael Tautschnig (mt@debian.org) wrote: Hi, Thanks for your help! > > > If I understood the mktexlsr code correctly, something as simple as > > > adding "set -e" could suffice to make mktexlsr exit/fail early, and > > > the existing ls-R file would not get overwritten. > > > > > I you're willing to work an this we'd be happy. I assume that not > > only mktexlsr and fmtutil are affected. > > > > If somebody can give me a few usage scenarios for fmtutil (i.e., > proper command lines) I'll happily try out that as well, > "fmtutil-sys --all" (run as root) regenerates all format files, "fmtutil-sys --byfmt $format" just (re-)generates a single format file, where $format is tex, amstex, pdftex etc. Also you should try running "fmtutil -all" "fmtutil --byfmt $format", they generate user-specific formats. > but at the moment this doesn't seem to be as painful as expected!? > Maybe we should simply introduce these -e switches and then wait for the side effects. Norbert, Frank? H. -- sigmentation fault
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