Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:20:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010
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On Mar  3 18:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall
> of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages (> 2000!),
> TL2010 installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly
> generating all format files. The installation is done as 'root'
> (administrator), but the format files are created for all system
> users (as it should),
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20760  3 mar 16.33 foo.fmt
> 
> Now, with recent snapshot (say >= 20110215, including the one
> released today) this does not occur any more,

What about some helpful details which allow to reproduce your problem?
Like, say, how to get the packages, how you install them, stuff like
that.  You seem to imply that everybody knows how to do that.  I don't.


Corinna

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