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Bug#586549: mktexlsr does not fail on intermittent errors



Hi!

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> > 
> > 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.
> 

Done for all of the above, no errors.

> > 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?
> 

I really wouldn't claim to have done exhaustive testing, but I'd hope that I
have at least covered the very basic use cases, and none of them causes an
error. Therefore I'd also opt for adding set -e to the scripts and see what
happens.

Best,
Michael

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