From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 21 09:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16732 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16712 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA12439 for freebsd-ports@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:51:22 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:51:22 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199602211751.SAA12439@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: help! tex/latex ports problem Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk When it comes to tex/latex I'm afraid it comes to one of FreeBSD's weak points. That's where Linux distributions (especially german ~) really shine. I had a horror afternoon today trying to get a tex/latex installation fixed after the /usr/local backup to a NFS mounted Ultrix volume overflowed and the volume got trashed at the ultrix side with the same symptom (fsck -b failed always with superblock bad). Consequence: My backup was gone, pkg_add had failed and had deleted parts of my tex installation. Trying to build via mount /usr/ports and /usr/ports/distfiles from blues to mozart resulted always in failures when tex/mf wanted to find plain.mf - it prompted, you know that ugly prompt when tex asks for different filename. latex build always ended with an Error 2 , cannot find Makefile. tex built until this plain.mf point where I bailed out and did not know whether the installation was successfull. tex now always tells me it cannot find default format file. Any tex experts out there who can help me? Thanks. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de