<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Norbert,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OK, I'll rebuild Basic TeX. Before starting, I decided to try an experiment. I made BasicTeX-2019 my default TeX Distribution and then ran "sudo tlmgr paper a4". As the console output below says, formats were rebuilt. Why didn't this operation consult </div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>$opt_fmt = $localtlpdb->option("create_formats");</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">before rebuilding the formats, like tlmgr does when updating?</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tlmgr: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4: /usr/local/texlive/2019basic-hardened/texmf-config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tlmgr: setting paper size for dvips to a4: /usr/local/texlive/2019basic-hardened/texmf-config/dvips/config/config.ps</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tlmgr: setting paper size for pdftex to a4: /usr/local/texlive/2019basic-hardened/texmf-config/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tlmgr: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /usr/local/texlive/2019basic-hardened/texmf-config/xdvi/XDvi</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Regenerating all formats, this may take some time ...running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luajittex,mfluajit --all ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">done running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luajittex,mfluajit --all.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">done</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>