[Dev] texlive-core problem, and repairs

[Megver83]

El 06/12/17 a las 12:14, Nelson H. F. Beebe escribió:
> I built a new machine running Hyperbola 0.2.1 in our test farm of
> Unix(-like) systems, and successfully installed more than 650
> packages on it with "pacman -Sy", based on a similar list from
> an Arch Linux system in the farm.

I'm sorry, but I think you confused the mailing list. This is Parabola's
dev list, not Hyperbola's nor Arch's.

> 
> One package, texlive-core, failed to install completely, however,
> and I diagnosed the problem, and found a workaround logged in
> these system notes:
> 
> When I installed texlive-core, I found that the installation step
> failed because of missing Czech fonts (.../cs/cs*.mf).  A comparison
> with Arch Linux showed that Hyperbola is missing many files:
> 
> 	hyperbola:
> 		# pacman -Fl texlive-core | wc -l
> 		16266
> 
> 	archlinux:		
> 		# pacman -Fl texlive-core | wc -l
> 		24069
> 
> I was able to temporarily repair the problem like this:
> 
> 	# fmtutil-sys --listcfg
> 	# fmtutil-sys --disablefmt csplain
> 	# fmtutil-sys --disablefmt cslatex
> 	# fmtutil-sys --all
> 
> Now the Czech fonts are disabled, and the remaining *.fmt files are created:
> 
> 	hyperbola:
> 		# find /var/lib/texmf/web2c -name '*.fmt' |wc -l
> 		18
> 		
> 	archlinux:		
> 		# find /var/lib/texmf/web2c -name '*.fmt' |wc -l
> 		38
> 
> It is unclear why almost 8000 files are missing from texlive-core
> compared to the package on Arch Linux.  
> 
> I'm a member of the TeX Live team that prepares the annual releases,
> and I have TeX installed on almost 200 systems in the farm without
> ever seeing a problem like this, until I build the Hyperbola system.
> 
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