From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 20:09:15 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 A67BA106564A for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c-s@c-s.li) Received: from mail.319.ch (319.ch [88.198.108.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D608FC14 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.319.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B4018CCAC; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:49:29 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=c-s.li; s=default; t=1311450569; bh=XW9RTB+tPnueKznFAr13EWPOegBBxQ56iqeFXM49cMY=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uSf0OrRmZMBI0HXVovf5CaVaDMbmBtXAdiS7LrT7w8MgdVcc11Z4EVUtbh4a5B9UM UmsSHBaYm4tGupVNF0AxfqqsumTHdBO7lbfUdGF4DWh21dzYfBehedNth8SIAztVVD GsTrO5bt8uvMfdr1MdSS/gLv/IFVJAN5ZIpRYT1E= Received: from mail.319.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maia.319.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19154-02; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:49:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.228.232.206] (unknown [194.230.156.78]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: c-s@c-s.li) by mail.319.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2AC4F18CC5B; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:49:25 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=c-s.li; s=default; t=1311450568; bh=XW9RTB+tPnueKznFAr13EWPOegBBxQ56iqeFXM49cMY=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bSmD2i8TyG/FcIlaLY3NXvT9KazqULYjVsNw3pdkTYZBEvlTBLKHIkuj4880ktaMg MHSUxSBoW4xDXgTJNRXEL/lf/kl3wPdfkt3BAoG+qqfNu1o52Qg3n2OvSMO++vn94D odCnwY7pfZlAxVhAX7lqBK2bP3MvX7NPV7stztjc= From: C-S To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20110723120040.0E1F710656EF@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110723120040.0E1F710656EF@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:49:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1311450560.5098.6.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net Subject: Re: [Announcement] TeX Live 2011: Extended FreeBSD support 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: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:09:15 -0000 On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 12:00 +0000, freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:35:16 +0200 > From: Nikola Le?i? > Subject: [Announcement] TeX Live 2011: Extended FreeBSD support > To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <201107221551.p6MFpB1T014394@anthesphoria.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > Dear FreeBSD community, > > Yesterday, Karl Berry announced the release of TeX Live 2011: > > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-July/029711.html > > For those of you who use the official distribution, we arranged > everything so that TeX Live 2011 should work on FreeBSD 7, 8 and 9 > (i386 and amd64) out of the box. > > However, there are some special cases; like the previous year I > prepared the "Extended FreeBSD support" page: > > http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2011/bin/ > > These special cases include FreeBSD 8 and 9 users who need > applications > such as asy and xindy, and users of older FreeBSD releases (5 and 6). > Please refer to README.txt for the detailed info. > > A special note for users of biblatex: FreeBSD binaries of the > next-generation biblatex backend, biber, are included in TeX Live > 2011. > An additional support for biblatex-biber users on older FreeBSD > releases > is available as well: > > http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/Biber/ > > Since biber is a Perl script that relies on many newer-than-ported and > not-yet-ported Perl modules, this is currently the only easy way to > run > biber on FreeBSD. First of all, this is great news. My question is: what is the reason for not creating a port given that you claim in your README.txt file that these binaries have been built in jails with minimal dependencies. This means that you have figured out what these dependencies are. Hence, I'd appreciate it a lot if you could help us create a working port of texlive. Carlo