Subject: RE: texbin postinst in unstable fails

From: Casper BodenCummins <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:51:21 +0100

Dirk.Eddelbuettel writes:
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  Miro Torrielli writes:
  Miro>  I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to
retrieve
  Miro> all necessary packages, from stable & unstable.  Firstly, I
noticed
  Miro> that when installing a large number of packages on the system,
the
  Miro> unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or
another
  Miro> is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other
  Miro> machines.

Il m'est impossible de voir ce que a echoue. Plus de detail?

  Miro> Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails,
complaining of
  Miro> missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment out the postinst
script.

C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira. 

  Miro> Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option in
  Miro> mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does.

Aucune idee, je n'utilise pas elm (mais emacs avec vm).

Amities, Dirk 

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                            
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us.

Casper Boden-Cummins.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 09:04 EDT

Casper> I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us.

My excuses! That mail was not meant to also go to the list.

"texbin" fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the
file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to
mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from "buzz-fixed" overcomes the problem.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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From: Marcelo Magallon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:38:23 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from "buzz-fixed" overcomes the problem

I ran into this, too, and the program that complained about this
(Metafont?) started logging errors, which turned into a 72 MB log file...
I wish I had written down the filenames and stuff, but I haven't. :(
I can reproduce it, I think. I just have to "configure" Babel.

-Marcelo