TeXlive installation failure, TeXlive update breaks the TeX installation

Stefan Grosse singularitaet at gmx.net
Mon Apr 19 20:44:00 UTC 2010


On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:44:10 +0200 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>
wrote:

JN> It is caused by the fact that the older versions of packages (older
JN> than 29th Mar 2010) don't contain declarations of config files.
JN> %config(noreplace) is missing for a couple of critical configs.
JN> This causes overwriting of these configs every time a package
JN> containing them is updated. It was fixed by 29th Mar so it will not
JN> happen again with packages installed later than this date.
JN> 
JN> I put repo update announcements to this bug if you want to be
JN> notified about recent repo updates and troubleshooting:
JN> 
JN> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488651
JN> 
JN> Hope that helps,

Thanks Jindrich, it helped a lot. I erased and installed everything
again and it works again after the latest repo update. 

Cheers
Stefan



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