Re: Ubuntu and Context MKIV

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

Al 22/08/10 23:43, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Aditya Mahajan<adityam@umich.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Xan wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I file a bug:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/context/+bug/622253
>>>
>>> Please, provide any comments you want.
>>>        
>> What you have reported there is not a bug. After installing ConTeXt, you
>> need to run (luatools --generate) as a normal user; only then mtx-contex.lua
>> will be found.
>>      
> The need to run "luatools --generate" is not sufficiently
> visible (it is in README.MarkIV).   Any package that requires
> user configuration steps should have a mechanism to inform
> the user that such steps are required.  I suspect the damage
> was already done by the time the OP tried "luatools --generate" ,
> and was perhaps made worse by running the command from
> a root prompt.
>
>    
>> In your case, running luatools --generate does not help, and that is the
>> bug.
>>      
> You are right, but with a system like context it is sometimes better to
> avoid stressing the tools by following standard procedures.
>
> The OP ended up with /etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex, which suggests that
> MkII and/or fmtutil tried to install formats under /etc/texmf/web2c.   It may
> be too much to expect luatools to recover when things are not where they
> belong and files under $HOME are not owned by the user.
>
>    
Thanks George of confirming the bug.
In my opinion, the context package has to be ready for running. No 
intervention of user should be needed. For the other hand, I have 
problems running luatools, so we have a bug: or the first or the second.

Xan.
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