Bug#674090: texlive-binaries: updmap cannot find TLUtils.pm

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>]

Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2012.20120516-1
Severity: normal

Configuring tex-common always fails for me now when updmap-sys runs:

  Setting up tex-common (3.11) ...
  Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
  Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done.
  Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... 
  updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
  /tmp/updmap.U1Bxx9vW
  Please include this file if you report a bug.

  Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
  causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension
  .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

There are no .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in /etc/texmf/updmap.d.

Here is /tmp/updmap.U1Bxx9vW:

  Can't locate TeXLive/TLUtils.pm in @INC (@INC contains: //tlpkg /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/updmap line 21.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/updmap line 21.

Looking at /usr/bin/updmap, the problem line is

  use TeXLive::TLUtils qw(mkdirhier mktexupd win32);

Looking farther up, @INC is set in lines 14-15:

  chomp($TEXMFROOT = `kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT`);
  unshift (@INC, "$TEXMFROOT/tlpkg");

But "kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT" produces "/", which explains why
@INC contains //tlpkg rather than /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg.  The latter
would enable finding TLUtils.pm at
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm

I couldn't figure out understand why "kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT"
produces "/", or whether that's the correct output.  My guess was that
it should be /usr/share/texlive.

-Sanjoy

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii  dpkg            1.16.3
ii  ed              1.6-1
ii  install-info    4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  libc6           2.13-32
ii  libfontconfig1  2.9.0-3
ii  libfreetype6    2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1         1:4.7.0-8
ii  libgraphite3    1:2.3.1-0.2
ii  libkpathsea6    2011.20120410-1
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.49-1
ii  libpoppler13    0.16.7-3
ii  libptexenc1     2011.20120410-1
ii  libstdc++6      4.7.0-8
ii  libx11-6        2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxaw7         2:1.0.10-2
ii  libxmu6         2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxpm4         1:3.5.10-1
ii  libxt6          1:1.1.3-1
ii  perl            5.14.2-9
ii  tex-common      3.11
ii  texlive-common  2011.20120424-1
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.7.dfsg-1

Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
ii  luatex          0.70.1-3
ii  python          2.7.2-10
ii  ruby            4.8
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby]  1.8.7.352-2
ii  texlive-base    2011.20120424-1
ii  tk8.4 [wish]    8.4.19-4
ii  tk8.5 [wish]    8.5.11-1

texlive-binaries suggests no packages.

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