On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:50:41PM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > Todays yum update has a failure for texlive-base: .... > 1:texlive-base-2012-3.20120926_r27815.fc19.noarch was supposed to be removed but is not! See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868556 This is caused by a broken attempt to solve another problem. The report was closed with NOTABUG although this is evidently a bug. Maybe the developer indeed can invoke "rawhide" and claim that an update failure is something to be expected (although I have some doubts) but this is also buggy for other reasons. BTW - a failed update left in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ "weird" symlink(s) which were supposed to replace texmf-local directory but this cannot be done in that way. Other "reasonable" methods to acomplish that are also broken in assorted scenarios. You can workaround the trouble by removing texmf-local before trying to update. If you already added some "local" content then texmf-local has to be renamed and your TeX configuration modified (now and in the future) accordingly. It can be done, so in this sense texlive-base-2012-3.20120926_r27815 is not broken even if an update is, but this will put extra demands on users and a substantial number of those will have no idea what to with that. Michal -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
