Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I corrected this by installing libkpathsea, I noticed this message: >> Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-30) ... >> Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf >> >> Apparently the configuration script decided that this was an upgrade >> instead of a new install, which is not correct. I installed tetex-bin >> from scratch, so the config file _should_ have been installed, even if >> configuring the package failed at first. > > This looks like a bug, indeed.
But I cannot reproduce it here. I logged into an etch chroot, installed tetex-base and tetex-bin's dependencies except libkpathsea4. After that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_3.0-30_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin. (Reading database ... 17661 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_3.0-30_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin: tetex-bin depends on libkpathsea4; however: Package libkpathsea4 is not installed. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libkpathsea4_3.0-30_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libkpathsea4. (Reading database ... 17996 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libkpathsea4 (from .../libkpathsea4_3.0-30_i386.deb) ... Setting up libkpathsea4 (3.0-30) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dpkg --configure tetex-bin Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-30) ... Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# AFAIK tetex-bin had this file even in sarge, but I'm not sure whether it was ucf-managed back then. Are you sure you had purged tetex-bin before that, or was it maybe still in state "rc"? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
