From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjvGV-0001vs-Ao for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:39:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4R9cKL5009107; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:38:20 GMT Received: from pilet.ens-lyon.fr (pilet.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.167.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4R9a7pU020173 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:36:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pilet.ens-lyon.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E0815B84D for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:36:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pilet.ens-lyon.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pilet [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31115-33 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:36:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (amerique.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.50.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by pilet.ens-lyon.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBE215B84C for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:36:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:36:05 +0200 From: Alexandre Buisse To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Future of tetex Message-ID: <20060527093556.GA7325@ubik> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4476E035.3080207@gentoo.org> <44771213.7070205@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44771213.7070205@gentoo.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.17-rc4-ubik i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ens-lyon.fr X-Archives-Salt: 69af8645-3883-4a8f-99df-38c9c81d67df X-Archives-Hash: 304a5b86a03736cefa68d957225335c0 --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:03:36 +0200, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > >=20 > > Now for the exciting (but time consuming) news: > >=20 > > The road to a stable TeXLive in Gentoo: > >=20 > > 1. Stabilize tetex-3.0_p1[3]. We are almost done, there are very few > > real bugs left, and tetex-3.0_p1 is already much more stable than > > tetex-2 ever was. I hope this will happen in the next month. >=20 > This is long overdue - again if I can help please let me know. I use > this all the time and have been doing so for the last year. Do you have > a stabilisation tracker bug set up for this yet? Yes, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D124511 > >=20 > > 3. Create a TeXLive ebuild and put it onto ~arch and have ~arch user > > switch over. > > This requires us to figure out how to create a texmf-tree. In the past > > Thomas Esser created a very solid (although containing rather old > > versions) texmf-tree with packages taken from ctan[5]. > > There are several possibilities: > > 3.1 Create our own texmf-tree (can largely be automated by scripting). > > 3.2 Use MikTeX package manager[6] which was ported to Linux. > > 3.3 Use something similar to the g-cpan.pl script used by perl, to > > install packages from ctan[7]. > > I haven't evaluated the possibilities yet, but comments are more than > > welcome! > >=20 > I would favour option 3.1 personally, and it would be great to keep our > LaTeX packages more up to date as I sometimes have to manually update > these packages. I agree, but the question is to see how far we can automate the process. CTAN is a really large database and even the MikTeX package manager has only a fraction of it. Regards, /Alexandre --=20 Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Please copy me in your ~/.signature. --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEeB2Fwx9vvAARv2sRAszOAKCL+I7XPXvCk3XFXqZ3BWSEQFEJLgCg3bou TAjOnfCaLF6/LVaUybDljkY= =wLIM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list