On Fr, 09 Nov 2007, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> I had /usr/bin/xdvi.bin correctly linked to /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin,
> but the later was suposed to link to /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin, and it
> wasn't.
>
> The following seems to be the simplest fix:
>
> sudo update-alternatives --auto xdvi.bin
I don't understand why this does not work on ubuntu. THe Debian packages
introduced with texlive-bin 2007-8:
* rework the xdvi conf file handling code to not "preserve removal"
when upgrading from older texlive versions (Closes: #425272)
which does in the postinst configure part:
xdvi_alternatives () {
LANG=C update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin | grep -q "$1"
}
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/xdvi.bin xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin
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if update-alternatives --list xdvi.bin | grep -q xdvi.real ; then
# remove the old tetex alternative, should switch to auto mode
# automatically even if there are other xdvi alternatives
# installed
update-alternatives --remove xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi.real
else
if xdvi_alternatives "status is manual" ; then
if xdvi_alternatives "link currently points to /usr/bin/xdvi.real" ;
then
# link status is manual, and we point to the tetex alternative
# can this happen? It seems so, see #419381 and siblings
# we switch to auto mode
update-alternatives --auto xdvi.bin
else
# xdvi.bin is in manual mode but not pointing to xdvi.real, leave
# it untouched
: do nothing
fi
fi
fi
SO you wrote:
> but the later was suposed to link to /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin, and it
> wasn't.
Where was it linked to?
And the output of
LANG=C update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
LANG=C update-alternatives --list xdvi.bin
would be nice. The output BEFORE fixing this by hand.
> Seems like a packaging bug to me, simple enough to fix, but I haven't
> checked the package script to confirm.
It is not THAT simple, because we have other xdvi alternatives and we
cannot replace a MANUALLY set link (status manual) in any case with
--auto, this is not how Debian (Ubuntu?) works, one has to respect the
decisions of the system administrator.
Best wishes
Norbert
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