Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > update-fmtutil tries to generate that file, it should either > > - write to the destination of the link, or > > - simply replace the symlink by a real file, or > > - stop with an error, > > instead of doing nothing as it currently does. > > I think I'm going to change it so that it gives an error (it'd be > surprising if local customization in /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf suddenly > stopped working).
After looking at the script, I think it's on purpose to allow a symlink. I've changed the note (skipped when called with --quiet) to a warning, but kept the exitcode at 0. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
