Re: Install failure for texlive-nox-base 20210325-6

On 3/1/22 6:13 AM, David Neuhaus wrote:
> Hello.
> 
>     I’m getting repeated failures with updating or installing texlive-nox-base to version 20210325-6 on my MacBook Pro (mid-2014, 2.8GHz 15" intel Core i7) running OSX 10.14.6, fink 0.45.6, Xcode 11.3.1 (11C504) (as part of my attempt circumvent the failure with updating, at one point I removed the outdated version, so what I am now trying is installation).  I am using fink commander to interact with fink.
> 
>     It seems there is a dialogue question that isn’t handled correctly (see below), with the result that the installer stalls at this point:
> 
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>   texlive-nox-base
> Reading buildlock packages...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/text/texlive-nox-base_20210325-6_darwin-x86_64.deb
> (Reading database ... 366995 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace texlive-nox-base 20210325-6 (using .../texlive-nox-base_20210325-6_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
> install-info(web2c.info): no entry for file `web2c'.
> install-info(dvips.info): no entry for file `dvips'.
> install-info(dvipng.info): no entry for file `dvipng'.
> install-info(tlbuild.info): no entry for file `tlbuild'.
> Removing any leftover files from obsolete teTeX installations ...
> Unpacking replacement texlive-nox-base ...
> Setting up texlive-nox-base (20210325-6) ...
> updmap [WARNING]: resetting $HOME value (was /Users/dn) to root's actual home (/var/root).
> updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
>    /sw/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
> updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file:
>    /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 
>     Here it is apparently waiting for a y/n response.  Nothing further happens unless I use the interact with fink option in fink commander to give an answer.  So far I have only tried answering “n”, given the apparent implication in the dialogue that answering “y” may carry some risk.  The first and last lines of output after giving a “n” response appear below:
> 
> Missing map files found, disabling
> 	BaskervilleF.map (in /sw/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> 	Montserrat.map (in /sw/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> 	countriesofeurope.map (in /sw/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> in /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
> Do you really want to continue (y/N)? answer =n=

You can enter "y" here. It's not quite clear why those files are present 
(but perhaps not on some registry?).

Hanspeter
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