http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c1 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #1 from Dr. Werner Fink 2010-05-26 07:14:36 UTC --- What are you talking about? You can not use 64bit binaries on an 32bit architecture. Only 32bit binaries on a 64bit hardware platform may work. Next point is that those links are done by the links scriptlets located at /var/lib/texmf/link/<arch>-linux/ e.g. on an i586 architecture this is for texlive-bin you will find the triggerin script /var/lib/texmf/link/i586-linux/base therein you can read in the first few lines: #!/bin/sh CWD=$PWD test "$CWD" = "/" || CWD=${PWD}/ PATH=${CWD}bin:${CWD}usr/bin:${PATH} TARGET=i386-linux CPU=$(uname -i|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') OS=$(uname -s|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') set -- ${CWD}usr/bin/../lib/texmf/bin/* test "${TARGET}" = "${CPU}-${OS}" -o $# -eq 1 || exit 0 ln -sf ../lib/texmf/bin/i586-linux/afm2pl ${CWD}usr/bin/afm2pl || true [...] in other words the program uname(1) is used to determine the correct archtitecture. Only on ppc64 with ppc(32) user space the hardware platform is changed from 64bit to 32bit. Please note that the other way from 32bit hardware platform to 64bit can not work. If you want to use 32bit binaries on a 64bit hardware platform on x86 you have to do this by hand. Therefore you have to a fresh install without using zypper and without using yast. First of become root and change the use an 32bit program environment which is done by linux32 /bin/bash with this shell you may do a fresh install. You should check the used program environment by calling uname -i if the you see i386 then you can install with the help of rpm all required packages and the triggerin scripts should do their work. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c3 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #3 from Dr. Werner Fink 2010-05-26 07:51:15 UTC --- The use linux32 to set the correct platform. I'll not go to change the triggerin scripts. Otherwise the package texlive-nfs wil not work anymore. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c5 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |n0td1scl0s3d@hotmail.com --- Comment #5 from Dr. Werner Fink 2010-05-26 08:33:06 UTC --- The explain why do you want to break texlive-nfs? For this you can install all texlive-*-bin packages on on NFS server to export it to several clients with different hardware platforms all using texlive-nfs. The triggerin scripts simply avoid that the execution path on the NFS sever, e.g. x86_64, will be poison by e.g. ppc. Without this `kludge' this will not work anymore. Do you have a better solution around? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c7 --- Comment #7 from trevor trivet 2010-05-26 11:36:36 UTC --- BTW I couldn't get the suggested kludge to work - either there is insufficient detail or it just doesn't work, I suspect the meaning of "do this by hand. Therefore you have to a fresh install without using zypper and without using yast." needs expanding. Perhaps it means "find and download the rpms, then use rpm to install in the linux32 environment ignoring the dependencies" but it might mean something else. Having wasted more than enough time I am resorting to original solution... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c9 trevor trivet changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED InfoProvider|n0td1scl0s3d@hotmail.com | --- Comment #9 from trevor trivet 2010-05-26 21:46:27 UTC --- This is getting silly - My point about other suse packages is that they are _not_ broken in this way. In reply to your question "what about -nfs" my point was I don't care what happens to this - my bug report relates to the broken latex package and you shouldn't refuse to fix this bug just because the config scripts in another package are dodgy, perhaps you should fix both? I presume that since this has degenerated in stupid trolling instead of bug fixing the solution is going to be bugger all is done. It is clearly a bug - there has been no suggestion that it isn't a bug. The kludge suggested is not a fix. I can't see a good reason not to fix the package(s). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c11 trevor trivet changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #11 from trevor trivet 2010-06-04 09:20:33 UTC --- I wasn't entirely sure what was suggested above but I tried: The texlive-bin-latex package from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/openSUSE_11.0/i586/texl... I remove the old texlive-bin-latex and install the new one then reinstalled texlive-latex. Result no change, script / links still missing and latex still doesn't work. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c13 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #13 from Dr. Werner Fink 2010-10-29 15:37:47 UTC --- Should be fixed know for factory ... know the links are part of the architecture depend rpm's. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608636#c15 --- Comment #15 from Bernhard Wiedemann --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (608636) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/53340 Factory / texlive-bin -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.