From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 22 8: 9:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BD737B404 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA31225; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:26 -0800 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id IAA25993; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202221609.IAA25993@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: stephen@math.missouri.edu Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <3C766B88.7C515E88@math.missouri.edu> (message from Stephen Montgomery-Smith on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:02:16 -0600) Subject: Re: dvips576 missing Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What? There's a difference between teTeX and laTeX? Damn! This explains why there was no texconfig program this time around. I thought something was odd. I'd recommend that the comments in both ports be a bit more verbose if it is indeed the case that the latex port is outdated. -r Sender: stephen@math.missouri.edu Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:02:16 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dvips576 missing References: <200202221306.FAA17954@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ross Lippert wrote: > > Is there any reason why the dvips576 source file is not currently > hosted on the freebsd ftp servers? I tried to make the port last > night and it bailed because it could not get the file. I ended up > hunting about on the web for it and did find it though. Is there > something more current than dvips for generating ps files from dvi > files? > What I would do is to delete everything tex related (the tex, latex, xdvi, etc, etc ports) and install the teTeX port - this has everything, including dvips. (Probably this question belonged to a different mailing list, maybe freebsd-ports.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message