Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-01-13 17:23 +0100, charlie derr wrote: I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years probably). Generally speaking, this is risky business, but you probably know that. Leaping over the last stable release is not supported. Thanks for that hint.

Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
Replying to myself, I've found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454426 that this bug (which seems like the problem I'm having) has been closed with: the last releases of texlive-base and texlive-bin both resurrect the missing modes.mf (etc) files which caused the breakage in t

Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-13 17:23 +0100, charlie derr wrote: > I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years > probably). Generally speaking, this is risky business, but you probably know that. Leaping over the last stable release is not supported. > Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007.dfsg.1-

problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years probably). Over the last 18 hours (it's a pretty slow old beast) I've gotten most of the way towards an updated system, but ran into a problem late that I'm unsure how to address. I'm trying to avoid uninstalling texlive-base-bin (