From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20255 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bb Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: INstalling a new version of context Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 23:01:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20050508100002.AAEAA127B3@ronja.ntg.nl> Reply-To: skip@interbit.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115607304 3840 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2005 02:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 02:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 09 04:55:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUyQ3-0007Yw-LI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 04:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865B3127D5; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:02:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30404-01; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:02:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F59127C2; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:02:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD7A127C2 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:02:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29589-07 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1232127BC for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:01:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so1916872nzk for ; Sun, 08 May 2005 20:01:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qeQ578snId/FLoV8qvU62gMFVQFdVKBZVauBScpuobsLs9dTaczp98P0L1181sLM8KxKrVfCqtpSNVTtmTUgDFkT0MFP2UPMjUKqV9D0pqr0e50rtat/rKity35Enuppu0RJ+Od9gJr/UWq0QT0dr2orhfTy3trVijwpyrX7aqE= Original-Received: by 10.36.84.10 with SMTP id h10mr973347nzb; Sun, 08 May 2005 20:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.101.6 with HTTP; Sun, 8 May 2005 20:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20050508100002.AAEAA127B3@ronja.ntg.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20255 > The upgrading of Context or even of pdftex is sufficiently > failure prone that I have given up trying. I tend to agree. I follow the meager instructions I have found, as well as some direct help from hh himself and am still not able to get it working right. I think the problem is with hacked engine support. I try disabling the use of engine but I still get the same problem. At this point I am tracking down a weird error in texexec.pl in which kpsewhich returns a null result and TEXFORMATS gets set to '0'. This wreaks havoc and breaks everything. I suspect texlive texmf.cnf settings trigger a bug in texexec. Perhaps everything would work just fine with the limited linux tex distribution from pragma. But I, like many others, prefer to use texlive because it is fairly comprehensive and I can use my normal latex and friends. I think it would be a very useful exercise for hh to install a complete texlive on a stock fedora box. Then write down _every_ step necessary to get beta cont-tmf.zip installed and working. I would think that targeting texlive as the standard platform for distributing context on linux/unix would make the most sense. It should _not_ be necessary to make anything but a trivial change to texmf.cnf. sc