Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2011-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Mo, 26 Sep 2011, Frank Küster wrote: Funny thing, GREP_OPTIONS... Maybe unset GREP_OPTIONS somewhere (ucf, dpkg, ...)? As well as SED_OPTIONS, LS_OPTIONS, AWK_OPTS, and whatever. No, think a script provided for system maintenance can expect a

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2011-10-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:04:32PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Mo, 26 Sep 2011, Frank Küster wrote: Funny thing, GREP_OPTIONS... Maybe unset GREP_OPTIONS somewhere (ucf, dpkg, ...)? As well as SED_OPTIONS, LS_OPTIONS, AWK_OPTS, and

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2011-09-26 Thread Markus Michael Mueller
Dear Frank, dear Norbert, dear UCF maintainers! Recently, I found the error. It was a setting in my environment, namely in the variable GREP_OPTIONS. In GREP_OPTIONS, among others, I also included the flag '-n' to give line numbers in the output. Some script of one of the packages seems to call

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2011-09-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 26 Sep 2011, Frank Küster wrote: Funny thing, GREP_OPTIONS... Maybe unset GREP_OPTIONS somewhere (ucf, dpkg, ...)? Best wishes Norbert Norbert Preiningpreining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST,

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2010-11-20 Thread Frank Küster
Markus Michael Müller markus.michael.muel...@lrz.de wrote: as well, while registry itself has single number prefixes: 2:tex-common /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf 3:tex-common /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf 4:tex-common /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf 5:tex-common

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2010-11-15 Thread Markus Michael Müller
Hi Norbert, dear ucf maintainers, thanks for your answer, so far! I am not sure, whether this is of help, but here is the contents of the file /var/lib/ucf/registry after I installed tex-common and before I tried to install texlive:

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2010-11-09 Thread Markus Michael Müller
Subject: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure) Package: tex-common Version: 2.08 Severity: normal Sorry for bothering you, but I cannot install texlive on my new (1 week old) debian testing machine (amd64). The problem seems to be a failing reconfiguration of the tex-common package.

Bug#602964: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)

2010-11-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Markus, hi ucf maintainers, On Di, 09 Nov 2010, Markus Michael Müller wrote: Setting up tex-common (2.08) ... ucfr: Attempt from package tex-common to take /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf away from package 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:tex-common ucfr: Aborting. ? I am a bit stymed. That