Comment 8 for bug 24261

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:59:01 +0200
From: Florent Rougon <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Florian Cramer <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Florian Cramer] Re: tetex-bin: package doesn't install because
 of missing mfw binary

Florent Rougon <email address hidden> wrote:

> The following:
>
> cnf: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> mfw mfw - mf.ini
>
> As said, the error happens when I install tetex from scratch.

Maybe you think it is from scratch, but actually isn't? Because with:

  # dpkg -P tetex-extra tetex-bin tetex-base tetex-doc texinfo tex-common

followed by:

  # apt-get install tetex-bin tetex-extra

I get:

  # cnf="$("$(kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFMAIN)/texconfig/tcfmgr" \
  dquote cmdsubst> --cmd find --file fmtutil.cnf)" \
  > && echo "cnf: $cnf" && grep mfw "$cnf"; unset cnf
  cnf: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
  #

i.e., mfw does *not* appear in fmtutil.cnf.

I don't know why (maybe this format is obsolete), but it explains why I
don't get the error you reported.

--
Florent