texlive-basic update broken

[Paulo Moura]

On 09/08/2011, at 16:49, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 19:16, Paulo Moura wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The texlive-basic update is broken. See the following discussion for details:
>> 
>> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-June/029494.html
>> 
>> The bug seems to be already fixed up-stream but I'm not sure how we should proceed.
> 
> How exactly does that you are referring to relate to macports?

See below.

> The
> particular problem in the thread that you are referring to was present
> in TeX Live's repository for exactly 24 hours and should long be gone.
> (Almost the same problem happened a few days ago, but that one won't
> even proliferate into macports.)
> 
> However, as Dan said, I can easily imagine that the sequence of
> partial updates from 2010 to 2011 packages (when some packages remain
> from 2010 and some upgrade to 2011) will break format generation and
> in optimal scenario macports should not generate formats until the
> last texlive 2011 package is installed and the last texlive 2010
> package is removed. If that is not the case you can easily get broken
> formats inbetween.


The problem occurs even after uninstalling the previous version. And the error log shows that the problem is the same as discussed in the TUG list:

...
:info:activate ! I can't find file `loadhyph-zh-latn.tex'.
...
:info:activate ###############################################################################
:info:activate fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
:info:activate Visit the log files in directory
:info:activate   /opt/local/var/db/texmf/web2c
:info:activate for details.
:info:activate ###############################################################################
:info:activate 
:info:activate This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
:info:activate `luatex -ini  -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed
:info:activate `luatex -ini  -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex *jadetex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex *pdfjadetex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex *xmltex.ini' failed
:info:activate `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfxmltex -progname=pdfxmltex *pdfxmltex.ini' failed
:info:activate `ptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex platex.ini' failed
:info:activate `aleph -ini  -jobname=lamed -progname=lamed *lambda.ini' failed
:info:activate shell command "/opt/local/bin/fmtutil-sys --all" returned error 1
:error:activate Target org.macports.activate returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:activate Backtrace: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"$post $targetname"
:info:activate Warning: the following items did not execute (for texlive-basic): org.macports.activate
:error:activate Failed to install texlive-basic
:notice:activate Log for texlive-basic is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex_texlive-basic/texlive-basic/main.log

Cheers,

Paulo


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