From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b74d6df-abec-839b-fc70-5c7f1bcb9321@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ab46201.1c69fb81.cf3e2.269f@mx.google.com>
On 3/22/2018 10:10 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> This package contains this file:
>
> Â Â /etc/preremove/texlive-collection-basic.sh
>
> which in turn calls:
>
> Â Â /usr/libexec/update_tlpdb
>
> which is a Perl script. I understand that "texlive-collection-basic"
> requires
> "perl_base", but if a user removed Perl first then uninstallation of
> texlive
> would fail. Perhaps "update_tlpdb" could be rewritten as a shell script.
Failure of a preremove script doesn't cause uninstallation to fail.
In any case, update_tlpdb is the tip of the iceberg. The preremove
script also calls (indirectly) the Perl scripts
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/updmap.pl and
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 7:39 Steven Penny
2018-03-23 13:00 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2018-03-23 16:59 ` Achim Gratz
2018-03-24 5:51 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 15:49 ` Jordan Geoghegan
2018-03-24 16:07 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 18:17 ` Jordan Geoghegan
2018-03-24 18:43 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 19:13 ` Jordan Geoghegan
2018-03-24 19:33 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-25 0:01 ` Jordan Geoghegan
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