[NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

[Hans Hagen]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>   
>> context itself (the tex file) is recent, while your formats are old 
>> did you run texexec --make --all 
>>     
>
> I had run 'texexec --make' (following the directions at
> <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation>).  I just ran
> 'texexec --make --all' but the version info looks the same:
>
> $ texexec --version
> ...
>                context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21
>                cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31  fmt: 2006.3.28  mes: english
>
> With the help of 'texexec --verbose --version' I think I tracked down
> the reason.  
>
> On March 28th a friend told me that a paper we were writing was coming
> out in A4 format, which would be fine for everyone outside the
> Homeland.  So I ran 'texconfig' and set the default paper to letter.
> That created a ~/.texmf-var directory and generated lots of formats:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c
> $ ls -lt *.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 3070069 2006-03-28 10:31 pdfjadetex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 3100416 2006-03-28 10:31 jadetex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  225933 2006-03-28 10:31 mptopdf.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 5308842 2006-03-28 10:31 cont-en.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  420822 2006-03-28 10:30 amstex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  896740 2006-03-28 10:30 lamed.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  344826 2006-03-28 10:30 aleph.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 4024948 2006-03-28 10:30 lambda.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 1189914 2006-03-28 10:30 omega.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  290204 2006-03-28 10:30 pdfetex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 1980649 2006-03-28 10:30 pdflatex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  290170 2006-03-28 10:30 etex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  260766 2006-03-28 10:30 pdftex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 1980614 2006-03-28 10:30 latex.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  247167 2006-03-28 10:30 tex.fmt
>
> When I install the latest context with, say, 'texexec --make --all',
> it creates these three formats:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c
> $ ls -lt `find -mindepth 2 -name '*.fmt'`
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy  229571 2006-04-06 10:26 ./pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 6486671 2006-04-06 10:26 ./pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt
> -rw-r--r--  1 sanjoy sanjoy 6407346 2006-04-06 10:26 ./pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>
> However, the web2c/{mptopdf,cont-en}.fmt formats created by texconfig
> shadow these formats:
>
> $ (cd ; kpsewhich --format=fmt cont-en )
> /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.fmt
>
> I can easily fix it by deleting the cont-en and mptopdf formats made
> by texconfig, but that is a hack -- a symptom of its hack nature being
> that the next time I run texconfig, the shadowing formats will return
> to web2c/.
>   
well, either use texconfig to generate context formats or use texexec --make ; texconfig does not support the $engine subpath feature (too difficult to implement) but we need this in order to distinguish between formats for pdftex, aleph and xetex 

Hans 

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