Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:47:41 +0200 From: Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: hackers-list freebsd <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - FreeBSD project idea Message-ID: <0E7B7EE4-CA8A-4836-B839-564EAD2966EE@entel.upc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4FDDC73A.3090203@janh.de> References: <CACsYpVMrR1aDDM5k9t8c%2BLRdnEL5yR761L7D6er0gM=1F9i4ww@mail.gmail.com> <20120530204502.5cab974c@desktop.pc> <20120617060135.GA7986@zim.MIT.EDU> <4FDDC73A.3090203@janh.de>
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Enviat des del meu iTotxo (disculpeu la brevetat) Sent from my iBrick (excuse me for the brief message) >=20 >=20 > Quite a few conflicts and changes in dependencies are needed for TeXLive. T= eXLive does not just replace teTeX, but also ports like freetype-tools, t1ut= ils, jadetex, etc. I have patches for all ports I use, which has been workin= g for me for half a year. If TeXLive and teTeX were supposed to exist in por= ts in parallel for some time, something like bsd.tex.mk would be needed with= a generic way to specify tex related dependencies. Maybe this would be usef= ul for the transition period, since we probably would not want texlive-schem= e-tetex to replace all teTeX dependencies, but many people disagree that hav= ing both TeX at the same time in ports would be a good idea. >=20 > There are ports that I could not get to build with TeXLive at all: misc/fr= eebsd-doc-* There are too many error messages I do not understand. Someone w= ith a lot more insight will have to look at these, before TeXLive can replac= e teTeX in ports. I have posted to texlive-freebsd@googlegroups.com about th= is, but there were no answers. >=20 > I guess the biggest problem for people to put more effort into fixing TeXL= ive in FreeBSD ports is the huge disagreement about how a final solution sho= uld look like. >=20 > OT: FreeBSD might be more behind than others, but others have trouble with= TeXLive in their native packaging system, too: Nothing never than TeXLive 2= 009 made it into Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. >=20 > Cheers, > Jan Henrik > _______________________________________________ One (among others) problems is the TL nanescheme. They don't release packag= es with version number. Because of that maintaining the distinfo of thousand= s of packages is quite difficult. Then I'd vote for keeping an old version of the TL tarballs (like ubuntu d= oes) in the FreeBSD FTP distfiles dir and proceed with fixing the ports need= ing teTeX. =20 I did for gnome2 sometime ago and wasn't that for most of the gnome2 packa= ges. I would like to help if this patch is taken. =20
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