Surprise in texlive-base %preinstall script

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sat Dec 27 18:59:33 UTC 2014


On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 13:03:12 -0500
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

> Who else thinks that this part of texlive-base's %preinstall is not
> really such a hot idea:
> 
> for i in `find /home/*/.texlive* -type d -prune`; do
> find $i -name *.fmt -type f | xargs rm -f > /dev/null 2>&1
> done

I don't think most anyone thinks it's a good idea:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128240

and

https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/451

It seems the texlive maintainer(s) aren't really paying attention. 

Likely some provenpackager should just go in and fix it at this point. 

kevin
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