TeXlive installation failure, TeXlive update breaks the TeX installation

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 22:44 +0200, Stefan Grosse wrote: 
> 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. 

I had removed and replaced everything on 4/11, but the latest updates
exhibit the same symptoms.  

        $ latex sdp.tex 
        This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-beta (Web2C 2010/dev)
        
        kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
        I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

I guess remove and reinstall is needed again?  Shouldn't that not happen
now?

Also note that evince needs to be removed before the update and rebuilt
from the SRPM after the update to get the right kpathsea lib version for
evince-dvi.

> 
> Cheers
> Stefan
> 
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

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