Oliver-Mark Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Oliver-Mark Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Strange that it says "(/usr/bin/amstex", on my system it's "(./amstex". >>>> But anyway. >>> >>> Does tex translate any filename into realnames? >> >> Pardon? What do you mean with this question? > > From my experience in many TeX documents I found something like > \include amstex which includes the first file of amstex.* (or > priviledged filename extensions). In the *tex output you always see > which real file is included,right?
Yes, that's true. Substitute "realnames" by "name with qualified path" and I would have said "yes" at once. I'm not sure under which circumstances "qualified path" means "full absolute path", or when a relative path like "./something..." can occur. >> I still don't see a reason to change the current directory to >> /usr/bin/. > > Okay, from the beginning: When I did my upgrade my current directory > was /usr/bin Which is what I think should never happen. I understand what was going on when you did that, why it went wrong and all. But I don't see why your current directory should be /usr/bin at all, ever. And I'm asking whether it's worth to fix a bug that's only triggered by a behavior of the local admin that (so far) makes no sense to me. > and the installation/configuration with dpkg > failed. apt-get -f > install started from the same directory worked. That's interesting; it seems apt-get changes dir itself (although I can't find it in the sources). > Yes, I think the configuration should take care of the directory from > which the configuration is started until this BUG can be closed. The > idea from Florent to use a temporary directory in /tmp is easy to > implement and should work. I don't have the time to test it but it > really sounds like a good idea. Yes, it does. People go ahead coding. Although I'd appreciate more if you'd give teTeX's license problems some care... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
