Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:55:59 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in 4-STABLE, *.TXT files removed Message-ID: <20010608085559.A67099@admin4.dircon.net> In-Reply-To: <20010606162900G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:29:00PM -0700 References: <200106061634.f56GYlA90861@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010606095724R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200106062201.f56M1Wd70662@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010606162900G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Strictly speaking, we do have latex as a separate port which doesn't pull in the quite the monstrosities that teTex requires. In principle, one could either modify the existing jadetex port to optionally or exclusively require only latex. I presume jadetex doesn't fundamentally require much beyond pdf(la)tex (which is in latex). Latex is pretty big but not quite unthinkably so. If this functionality (PDF on release) is considered quite nice and nobody else wants to jump on it, I might have a go at converting the jadetex port with the assistance of the current maintainer. - Mark On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:29:00PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Argh, 3 additional ports sure sounds small but then you mention bloody > ** teTex **, an application which is probably larger than FreeBSD > itself, and I go a funny shade of grey when I think of that getting > built on the snapshot boxes. ;) > > Send me some diffs and I'll run a few tests to see how serious a > problem it is, OK? > > - Jordan > > > From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) > Subject: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in 4-STABLE, *.TXT files removed > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:01:32 -0700 > > > If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > Subject: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in 4-STABLE, *.TXT files remove > > > d > > > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:34:47 -0700 > > > > > > > It'd be real easy for us to do...it's roughly a five-line change to src/ > > > > release/Makefile. In fact I almost did this for the FTP area. For the > > > > CDROM, I would like to know what the release engineer(s) think, since > > > > they may have some space constraints. I need about 500 KB for the > > > > PDF files for RELENG_4, as it stands today. > > > > Apparently, I lied when I said it was real easy. For starters, it's a > > seven-line patch, as I initially envisioned it. However... > > > > > The release engineer fully supports this idea for FTP and CDROM. > > > > Testing revealed a small problem I'd forgotten...during a release, we > > build the textproc/docproj port with JADETEX=NO, which eliminates the > > build of the print/jadetex port, as well as the (huge) print/teTeX port. > > If we want to build PDF documents, we'll have to set JADETEX=YES and > > consequently build three new ports at release time (one of them, teTeX, > > is pretty big). > > > > Just for posterity's sake, the additional ports that need to be built > > are: > > > > print/jadetex > > print/teTeX > > www/libwww > > > > We also need to edit /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf in > > the chroot area to reflect the larger memory settings required. > > A simple sed script can handle this part. > > > > Not rocket science to do, but it'll make releases take longer (I haven't > > quantified this). I think it's worth doing anyways, but I thought I'd > > bring this up. > > > > Bruce. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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