bug#62493: xelatex won't render fonts correctly without full texlive

[John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>]

"Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> Exported revision 59745.
>> svn: E160013: File not found: revision 66702, path
>> '/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/tcode'
>> command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert"
>> "-r" "59745"
>> "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/tcode/"
>> "/tmp/guix-directory.XcAtR6/tcode/" failed with status 1
>
> The importer is naive and assumes that any file in tlpdb starts with
> “texmf-dist/”.  For the xetex package there’s a file
> “tlpkg/tlpostcode/xetex.pl” and if you drop the same number of
> characters that you would for “texmf-dist/” you end up with
> “tcode/xetex.pl”.
>
> Oops!

Unfortunately that leaves me at a bit of a loss for making a
texlive-xetex package as I'm not understanding the whole texlive package
structure at first glance. I've tried something similar to other
packages I see but haven't gotten anywhere.

Any pointers or similar package to look at?

Thanks!