Frank Küster wrote: > Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't understand. Shouldn't tetex-bin call the update-* scripts before >> generating formats/map files/... >> >> [Looking into common.functions.in] >> >> It seems it doesn't. IMO that's the bigger problem. > > I think every package that installs snippets for language.dat, > updmap.cfg, etc., should call update-foo. That's the clean way.
Agreed in principle (see below). However, I think it is also important that every package that calls fmtutil/updmap/... has to call the apropriate update-* scripts before, which tetex-bin does not at the moment. Just imagine that instead of tetex-base it would have been tetex-bin that got updated together with jadetex recently: tetex-bin's postinst regenerates formats, but the present fmtutil.cnf still represents the state valid before the changes to jadtex.ini. The same failure as with tetex-base would occur. If tetex-bin's postinst would call update-format, the problematic lines would not be present in fmtutil.cnf due to the present .dpkg-new file. >> But then, calling the update-* scripts should be safe at any time. >> However, now there is an unconditional call to mktexlsr in tetex-base's >> postinst jusst before the update-* scripts are called. IMO this is >> unsafe (tetx-bin might not be installed) > > Indeed; it will just fail if tetex-bin isn't installed, which I noticed > during testing. It's already fixed in my local copy and the upload I > made, and I just committed it. Good. A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base or jadetex: Right now they regerenate all formats, even though this is not necessary. Why not have them regenerate only those formats they actually provide? A simple way to achieve this would be to call fmtutil-sys --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/foo.cnf That way these packages would be more self contained and could not get as easily broken by other packages. Of course, the 'binary providing packages' such as tetex-bin would still have to regenerate all formats. cheerio ralf
