Hi Frank, Frank Küster wrote:
Are some of the people around who wrote this? I found some information
I do not use Debian and did not write that page, but I can answer your questions partially, at least.
- Is it intended that context formats end up in $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/? If yes, why is that so? If not, we should rather find out why it happens and fix it.
Yes, it is. ConTeXt does not support only pdfetex, but all major engines, like XeTeX and Aleph. I have formats in: $TEXMF/web2c/aleph/ $TEXMF/web2c/luatex/ $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/ $TEXMF/web2c/xetex/
- Why does it make a difference if the formats are created by fmtutil instead of texexec (Except for the output directory)? Should the upstream packaging be changed so that fmtutil is never used, but texexec, or should fmtutil be fixed to produce the same as texexec?
It is almost certainly better to ignore/block fmtutil and use texexec instead. Properly setting up a ConTeXt update is not necesarily limited to format generation only. Greetings, Taco