From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 10:19:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77352106564A for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from romain@blogreen.org) Received: from marvin.blogreen.org (smortex-1-pt.tunnel.tserv11.ams1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f14:7c2::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12C08FC19 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by marvin.blogreen.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 11ED25A4; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:19:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:19:02 +0200 From: Romain =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tarti=E8re?= To: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Message-ID: <20111011101902.GB14910@blogreen.org> References: <20111009212024.4a0e443e@silver.nine> <4E925F6A.3080700@missouri.edu> <20111010082927.GA32070@blogreen.org> <4E92E3D4.5020700@missouri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <4E92E3D4.5020700@missouri.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://romain.blogreen.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Eitan Adler , Hiroki Sato Subject: Re: TeXLive X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:19:06 -0000 Hello! On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:23:48AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 10/10/2011 06:44 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > Are there any plans on getting these committed to the mainline ports > > tree? I'd be willing to work with you on that. >=20 > I agree with Eitan. I would also be pleased to see TeXLive in the FreeBSD ports (obviously). There are a few issues to sort out before however: - The way TeXLive sources are distributed is not convenient: all binaries are built and installed from a single sources tarball. This leads to the "big" print/texlive-core but really lacks scalability. Back in 2008, Hiroki Sato was working on splitting all this AFAICR. Hiroki, I added you in Cc, can you please tell us if you had any progress on this topic? - The way TeXLive sources are distributed is not convenient (I feel like I am repeating myself): TeXLive packages tarballs are updated 'in place' (distfiles filename do not include versioning information so when a tarball is updated, only it's checksum change). At some users request a few weeks ago, I created a "place where we can discuss freebsd-texlive". Since the project is hosted at Google, I took the simple option and created a Google group called freebsd-texlive: http://groups.google.com/group/freebsd-texlive While the general direction of TeXLive on FreeBSD discussion may continue here, I think that each particular issue should be discussed on this list so if you are interested in this topic, want to help, or have any valuable knowledge in TeXLive, fill free to subscribe! Regards, Romain --=20 Romain Tarti=E8re http://people.FreeBSD.org/~romain/ pgp: 8234 9A78 E7C0 B807 0B59 80FF BA4D 1D95 5112 336F (ID: 0x5112336F) (plain text =3Dnon-HTML=3D PGP/GPG encrypted/signed e-mail much appreciated)