The version of texlive being upgraded from was:
2007-06-04 16:10:11 upgrade texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-12 2007-11
The version of jadetex on the system is 3.13-8, and it is fully
installed and configured.
Just to make sure... Does anyone need anything else from me on this
right now?
-- John
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:25:27PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > But why is texlive-latex-base not configured AND jadetex.postinst is
> > run??? THis is out of my understanding?
>
> Slowly unfolds the mystery.
>
> I assume the following:
> - we are upgrading from texlive 2005, it can only happen at this time
> - furthermore, jadetex is installed and configured, no problem, even
> with jadetex -8 in testing
>
> - no we do the upgrade, up to now
> texlive-base-bin
> texlive-base
> texlive-latex-base
> is installed in version 2005 something
>
> - texlive-base-bin.preinst is run, it removes *ALL* files from
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.{fmt,mem,...}, also latex.fmt
>
> - all the files are unpacked
>
> - texlive-base-bin.postinst is run:
> update-fmtutil includes jadetex, but not the latex since
> it is not configured
> fmtutil-sys --all is called which tries to build jadetex format
> and dies ...
>
> how to reproduce (I just tried it, it works!)
> - testing chroot
> - purge everything
> - apt-get install jadetex
> - switch to sid
> - apt-get dist-upgrade
> PENG!!!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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