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Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not selectprev
- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:46:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not selectprev
- Organization: Jan at Appel
- References: <3E8B1752.1040207@cs.uu.nl> <3E8B6B5D.8000501@cygwin.com>
Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com> writes:
> Thi is by design. We have a single namespace for all packages, even if
> they don't have [curr] elements. In fact prev only elements get
> promoted to curr.
Ah, I didn't know that. That's unfortunate, in this case. The old
tetex-beta and texmf* packages were removed from the archive. Dummy
`upgrade-helper' packages with newer versions were added, that depend
on the new tetex packages.
> You should still have recieved consistent packages, what didn't get
> installed?
Probably the texmf tree. Tetex consists of 7 packages. The fact
obsolete packages (named tetex-beta and texmf*) are also listed, may
add to the confusion; the user probably sees 11 tex-related packages.
>From the [curr] release, to get a working tex installation, you need
tetex-bin, and one of tetex-tiny or tetex-base. You can do that by
selecting one of tetex, tetex-tiny, or tetex-base. If you select
tetex-bin, you only get the tex binaries, so that you may combine that
with an already installed texmf tree (read: miktex/texlive).
The upgrade-helpers have been around for over a year. Maybe we should
simply remove them?
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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