[Fedora TeX Live] Missing groff.enc (on texlive 2012, F16)

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 03:23:59PM -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running texlive 2012 on Fedora 16 and am trying to compile a
> document that requires groff.enc. I can't find anything that provides
> it.
> 
> $ sudo yum install 'tex(groff.enc)'

Strange. It works for me:

# yum install 'tex(groff.enc)'
Loaded plugins: presto
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tex-metapost.noarch 1:1.212.svn26689-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: texlive-metapost-bin for package:
1:tex-metapost-1.212.svn26689-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: tex-metapost-fedora-fonts for package:
1:tex-metapost-1.212.svn26689-1.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tex-metapost-fedora-fonts.noarch 1:1.212.svn26689-1 will
be installed
---> Package texlive-metapost-bin.x86_64
1:2012-svn26509.1.20120824_r27513.fc16 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=======================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                   Arch
Version                                                Repository
Size
=======================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 tex-metapost                              noarch
1:1.212.svn26689-1                                     texlive
78 k
Installing for dependencies:
 tex-metapost-fedora-fonts                 noarch
1:1.212.svn26689-1                                     texlive
17 k
 texlive-metapost-bin                      x86_64
1:2012-svn26509.1.20120824_r27513.fc16                 texlive
202 k

Transaction Summary
=======================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package (+2 Dependent packages)

> 
> doesn't find anything, nor does
> 
> $ yum provides '*'/groff.enc

Note that it actually can not find anything as the virtual provides
for filetypes are just an arbitrary string tex([file without path].[ext])

The absence of path is actually intentional as the file will likely be
indexed by kpathsea anyway.

Jindrich

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