Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Ralf, hi Norbert, > > Still no answer...
Sorry, this message got pushed pack to deeply due to some email troubles I had during the last few days. Never reboot the wrong server without thinking .... :-( >>> Should we just go on and let tetex-base's and tetex-extra's postinst >>> call >>> >>> create_tetex_formats --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf >>> >>> I think that would help, too, at least with jadetex and friends. >> >> There's an other potential problem here. If a new tetex-base contains a >> change that requires the LaTeX formats to be regenerated, it might well >> be that other formats that preload LaTeX during format generation also >> need to be rebuilt. The same then is also true for a TeXlive based >> system. Why should they have to be rebuild? It sure would be better if they were rebuild so that they can use the new and shiny features of the new LaTeX :-), but the old format should work just as well. >> But somehow this seems to be a more general problem. Even a format that >> does not preload LaTeX might become unusable, and it might even require >> configuration file changes before it works again. Just imagine that it >> turns out that some hyphenation patterns are non-free and need to be >> removed. A package that keeps its own language.dat won't work any >> more. IIRC hyphenation patterns are also stored within the format. Hence the format using the now non-free patterns should still work. It would of course still use these patterns, even though they are no longer installed. >> So should we simply ignore such potential problems, and go on with using >> --cnffile during format renewal? Or rather try to recreate all of them? >> We should also consider what the effect would have been for jadetex or >> xmltex users on the previous frequent bugs if we had already only >> regenerated our own formats. Hm, I guess they mostly were related to >> changes in tetex-bin, weren't they? Yes, I think the main problems where due to the change in engine and the related 'efmt' -> 'fmt' stuff. cheerio ralf
