[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#271291: passivetex fails its post-install configuration

[Tom Peters]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Frank K=FCster wrote:

> I'm one of the tetex-bin maintainers, and just read that bug report.
>
> I think the bug might have been in tetex-bin_2.0.2-20 which was
> installed when the bug was reported, and fixed in 2.0.2-21; from the
> changelog:
>
>   * Also provide a smooth upgrade path to the use of update-updmap and
>     update-fmtutil, thanks to Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> and
>     Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi> (closes: #268957, #267734).
>     [frank]
>
> Tom, you wrote:
>
> > Interestingly, a texmf.cnf file with some temporary filename is
> > created in the directory from which I try to install the package.
>
> Was the filename something like 23456ETXMFC, i.e. a "random" number plus
> ETXMFC? Then it is probably a close relative to the bug above, or rather
> the part that was only fixed with 2.0.2-22:

Thank you for your reply: I indeed have a whole buch of such files in
root's homedir.

I currently have:

# dpkg -s tetex-bin
Package: tetex-bin
Status: install ok installed
=2E..
Version: 2.0.2-20


Now I have:

# apt-get update
=2E..

# apt-get install tetex-bin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 208  not upgraded.
Need to get 3927kB of archives. After unpacking 41.0kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main tetex-bin 2.0.2-22 [3927kB]
Fetched 3927kB in 33s (119kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 112768 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tetex-bin 2.0.2-20 (using
=2E../tetex-bin_2.0.2-22_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ...
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-22) ...
Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf with new version
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... Replacing config file
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
=2E..

Running updmap. This may take some time. ...


If you want to change the default settings,
use /usr/bin/texconfig to configure teTeX.

Fixing permissions and group of ls-R as specified by debconf ...
mode of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
mode of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
mode of `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)


OK, that works now; and no new *ETXMFC.  TeX still seems to work too.

Thank you for the update!

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