Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have now upgraded to tetex-base-bin 2007-9 and tetex-base 2007-7 after > restoring the conffiles. I assume the other packages will install properly > too, will do that now. What puzzles me is that restoring the conffiles did not > succeed with 2007-8 and 2007-7, respectively, I had to go back to 2007-7 > and 2007-6 to do so.
This is really strange. It just worked here with texlive-base_2007-7 and texlive-base-bin_2007-9: I started in an etch chroot, installed tetex-bin, installed texlive which left tetex-base in "rc" state, dist-upgraded to sid, and purged tetex-bin and tetex-base. After that, "dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base-bin" failed as expected, but it worked again after the confmiss action: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2007-7_all.deb (Reading database ... 22598 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007-7 (using .../texlive-base_2007-7_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement texlive-base ... Setting up texlive-base (2007-7) ... Configuration file `/etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all . This may take some time... fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.dMD27393 Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base-bin_2007-9_i386.deb (Reading database ... 22598 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace texlive-base-bin 2007-9 (using .../texlive-base-bin_2007-9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement texlive-base-bin ... Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007-9) ... Configuration file `/etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. Configuration file `/etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all . This may take some time... done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# Do you by chance have the fmtutil tempfiles left from the unsuccessful try of confmiss-Installation of the newer versions (2007-8 and 2007-7)? >> > After this I successfullly reinstalled jadetex (3.13-8) and >> > docbook-utils (0.6.14-1), but removing them in the first place does not >> > seem necessary, since version 3.13-8 is dated May 2. >> >> What do you infer from the date of jadetex? > > Nothing, I saw that -8 is the new version even since it is dated May 2. > Maybe you also saw the -7.1 works, at least with base-bin-7 and base-6. Ah, well. jadetex seems to have a couple of bugs, I'm not sure whether they're related. Let's forget about that for now; we're going to take it over, and I'm preparing an upload of -8 which will change a lot of things. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
