Bug#351707: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#351707: texlive-base-bin: replacement of tetex with texlive fails

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 06.02.06 23:24:40, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > Building format(s) --all . This may take some time. ...
> > ...
> > > fmtutil: running `etex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' ...
> > > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX)
> > > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt doesn't match pdfetex.pool
> > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> > > Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
> > > 
> 
> Citing Frank Küster from
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334613:
> 
> Yes, the jadetex issue solves itself.  Even without downgrading, just
> "dpkg --configure -a" after the failed run will do it.  I'm not sure
> about the reason, though.

Hmm, I did a couple of apt-get install -f before posting the bug-report.
It failed everytime. When I moved pdflatex.fmt from /var/lib/texmf/web2c
to /root the texlive-base-bin configuration picked up that file
according to the log in /tmp. I had to rename it, then it broke on
pdfjadetex.fmt which I also moved and renamed and after that it worked.

Thus I can't run dpkg --configure -a now, but as the files in
/var/lib/texmf/web2c are recreated I guess a reconfigure of jadetex or
the reinstall of that package would have solved the issue without moving
the files.

I'll need the tex-system this week and thus I'm not able to do
removal/install runs to test if I can reproduce this, but I will do that
as soon as I'm not under such pressure anymore.

Andreas

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