latex not working in F20: "I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!"

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:10:16AM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:43 AM, puntogil at libero.it <puntogil at libero.it>wrote:
> 
> > i apologized if this comment is OT
> > there is also this problem
> >
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013) restricted
> > \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt I can't find the
> > format file `pdflatex.fmt'! make: *** [spec.pdf] Error 1
> >
> > related to
> >
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/glassfish-jax-rs-api.git/tree/glassfish-jax-rs-api.spec
> >
> 
> For even more fun, packages that use hevea to build their documentation ran
> afoul of this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989703.
> 
> Is the hevea maintainer (Andreas Thienemann?) even around anymore?  I don't
> see any maintainer activity since 2008 (which is why we're still on version
> 1.10 versus upstream's version 2.06), and rjones's comaintainer request for
> hevea is sitting there untouched.  If not, somebody else is going to have
> to fix that bug before hevea-using packages can be rebuilt successfully.

Yeah, I can (still) comaintain hevea if someone pushes the right button.

Rich.

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