Updating basictex did not trigger format rebuild

Hironobu Yamashita h.y.acetaminophen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 17:21:29 CEST 2019


Hi,

MacTeX and BasicTeX has different setup in texlive.tlpdb;

BasicTeX:
depend opt_create_formats:0

MacTeX:
depend opt_create_formats:1

I don't know why BasicTeX does not recreate format ...
I think this behavior is inconvenient enough

Hironobu


2019-10-12 (Sat.) 0:14 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:

>
> > On Oct 11, 2019, at 10:06 AM, Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure if it is worth looking at
> >
> > A user on https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/511838/3929
> >
> > reported that updating basictex (the small MacTeX) did not trigger rebuilding the formats which is kinda critical after the latest latex kernel changes
> >
> > A manual
> >
> > sudo fmtutil-sys --all
> >
> > helped. Just wanted to pass it on if there was a general problem with it.
> >
> > Note that it is on Catalina if that makes a difference.
> >
> > A another person in the comments mentioned the same problem with a full MacTeX. Not sure if that person is also on calatina.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > /Lars Madsen
> > Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> > Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> > Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
> >
> >
>
> Howdy,
>
> I can't say about BasicTeX but I have no problem updating the full TeX Live 2019 (installed by MacTeX) under Catalina. I usually us teX Live Utility which is a front end to tlmgr as well as tlmgr directly.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>


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