Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other part is that fmtutil seems to act this way: > > a) create a temporary directory > b) create all formats in this directory > c) move the formats to /var/lib/texmf/web2c > > If in b) there is a latex.fmt not only in the temporary directory, but > also in /var/lib/texmf/web2c, it seems to take that one. I still need > to verify this.
In fact it was way more tricky. Erasing the old formats helped somewhat, but revealed an other issue. In fmtutil-sys, we set progname to fmtutil-sys, and *export* it. On the other hand, formats are created with lines like pdfetex -progname=jadetex ... and this progname switch propagates to the environment. Therefore, if "etex -progname=jadetex ... jadetex.ini" finds that latex.fmt does not exist and calls fmtutil --byfmt=jadetex, progname is already set, and the whole thing fails. This is now tested once in a no-longer-clean chroot, and checked into SVN on svn.debian.org. If anybody has time to build packages, check upgrades from sarge or etch (with jadetex installed), that would be great, since I won't have time on Thursday. If somebody even uploads the package, even better; although there are some other DDs reading debian-tetex-maint, an NMU would be welcome. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
