texlive-basic update broken

[Keith J. Schultz]

Hi Everybody,

Maybe someone should put this all in perspective.

Basically, TeXLive has been frozen since the end of May.
So, any updates were not from the normal main TexLive distribution,
but from the development test side!

Sooo, any problems are to be expected with such a distribution and should have
been mark as devel!!

As of 20 July 2011 TexLive 2011 has been release to the public. 

Soo, TeXLive 2011 should be functioning properly. If it is not working correctly
then it has not yet been fully ported yet. 

Which means you have to wait till the maintainers get around to it.

I use to use macports for texlive, but have switched to the MacTeX Distribution.

For one you do not need to wait for the maintainers to catch up with changes in TeXLive
nor with other parts of macports.  

Two, I can use tlmgr or the TeXLive Utility to keep my TeXLive distribution up to date,
which you can not do with macports.

Three, I can have multiple TeXLive distributions side-by-side. or other TeX-Distributions.

My suggestion would be if you want a carefree TeXLive go to MacTeX.

Disclaimer:

The volunteers at macports are doing a great job. But, macports is not for the
simple user. Though the macports people try very hard to make it as easy as possible
and it keeps getting better. Yet, there will always be some hiccups.

regards
	Keith


Am 10.08.2011 um 00:09 schrieb 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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