On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:04:29PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On So, 25 Apr 2010, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> we're back to the starting situation: texlive-base fails to configure >> and its configuration attempt "unconfigures" tex-common. > Can you do the following: > - edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.preinst, search for a line starting > with > resurrect_conffile_sid .... > and *add* after it the following line (it is the line 226 right at the end) > resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex > texlive-base "$1" "$2" OK. > - edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.postinst, again search for > resurrect_conffile_sid > (this time it is line 73) and *ADD* after that line > resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf texlive-base That line is already there, and the only call to resurrect_conffile_sid. Duplicating it does not help. Maybe you wanted me to add resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex texlive-base "$1" "$2" ? Yes, that solves the problem: $ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up tex-common (2.07) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call Setting up texlive-base (2009-8) ... Reinstalling deleted mandatory conffile pdftexconfig.tex Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf. This may take some time... done. Processing triggers for tex-common ... Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Building e-tex based formats --byhyphen /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.def. This may take some time... done. Setting up advi (1.9.0-1) ... ... -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org