Steve Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drsteve> dpkg -l tex-common > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-============================-============================-======================================================================== > ii tex-common 0.15 Common > infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian > > drsteve> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 19 2005 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> > /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
Ah. This file shouldn't be a symlink, but a real file. Hm, did we ever have that setup, maybe during sarge development? Anyway, when 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). So to fix your bug, simply remove the symlink. In case that you have some local customization in /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf: The real conffile is /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf, please make your changes there, or better, if you only have *additions*, create a new file with extension *.cnf in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ and place your additions there. By the way, this is explained in README.Debian (in text and html format). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
