[tex-live] transient error with new LaTeX/inputenc: needed to rebuild formats myself

[jfbu]

Le 10/04/2018 à 15:03, jfbu a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> this morning I got an error with
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
>   % nothing here
>   
> \end{document}
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `uf8.def' not found.
> 
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: def)
> 
> I had updated the TL2018 pretest minutes before.
> 
> (last update was at some unknown date in past)
> 

the unknown date was yesterday

[Mon Apr  9 14:09:53 2018] update: latex (43813 -> 47377)


then today

[Tue Apr 10 11:20:14 2018] ...
(no latex update today)

J.-F.

> This disappeared after rebuilding the formats via
> 
> fmtutil-sys --all
> 
> I wonder why that was necessary,
> 
> Best
> 
> Jean-François
> 
>