bug#49977: Texlive importer is outdated?

bug#49977: Texlive importer is outdated?

[Xinglu Chen]

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[Cc Ricardo since you wrote the texlive importer]

In section "9.5 Invoking ‘guix import’" in the manual, there are two
examples of runnning the ‘texlive’ importer, but both of them result in
incomplete package definitions.

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~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix import texlive fontspec
following redirection to `https://ctan.org/xml/1.2/pkg/fontspec'...
command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" "51265" "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2019.3/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/fontspec" "/tmp/guix-directory.O5HIN3/svn" failed with signal 11
guix import: warning: Could not determine source location.  Please manually specify the source field.
(package
  (name "texlive-latex-fontspec")
  (version "2.7i")
  (source #f)
  (build-system texlive-build-system)
  (arguments '(#:tex-directory "latex/fontspec"))
  (home-page "http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontspec")
  (synopsis
    "Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX")
  (description
    "Fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.  It provides an automatic and unified interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX running on xetexXeTeX or luatexLuaTeX engines.  The package requires the l3kernell3kernel and xparsexparse bundles from the LaTeX3 development team.")
  (license lppl1.3c))
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~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix import texlive --archive=generic ifxetex
following redirection to `https://ctan.org/xml/1.2/pkg/ifxetex'...
command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" "51265" "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2019.3/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/ifxetex" "/tmp/guix-directory.GjfISH/svn" failed with signal 11
guix import: warning: Could not determine source location.  Please manually specify the source field.
(package
  (name "texlive-generic-ifxetex")
  (version "0.7")
  (source #f)
  (build-system texlive-build-system)
  (arguments '(#:tex-directory "generic/ifxetex"))
  (home-page "http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ifxetex")
  (synopsis "Am I running under XeTeX?")
  (description
    "A simple package which provides an \\ifxetex conditional, so that other code can determine that it is running under XeTeX.  The package requires the etexe-TeX extensions to the TeX primitive set.  Please note, that ifxetex is now part of iftexiftex.")
  (license lppl1.3c))
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When looking at the CTAN page for ‘ifxetex’[1], it says that the source
in located in /macros/generic/iftex, but I tried a few paths for the
archive, and they all result in an incomplete package (same warning as
above).

* /macros/generic/iftex
* macros/generic/iftex
* /macros/generic/iftex/ifxetex
* macros/generic/iftex/ifxetex

In general, I have rarely been able to successfully import a CTAN
package using the texlive importer, without the ‘source’ field missing,
perhaps it needs an update?


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bug#49977: Texlive importer is outdated?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:

> [Cc Ricardo since you wrote the texlive importer]

In the future please use the X-Debbugs-Cc header instead of Cc, so 
that Debbugs can put me on Cc *after* it has assigned a bug 
number.

> In general, I have rarely been able to successfully import a 
> CTAN
> package using the texlive importer, without the ‘source’ field 
> missing,
> perhaps it needs an update?

Correct.  It’s not useful at this point.  I have worked on and off 
again on a new TeX Live importer, but it’s not quite ready yet. 
I’ll try to resume work on it soon.

-- 
Ricardo

bug#49977: Texlive importer is outdated?

[Xinglu Chen]

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On Tue, Aug 10 2021, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:

> Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:
>
>> [Cc Ricardo since you wrote the texlive importer]
>
> In the future please use the X-Debbugs-Cc header instead of Cc, so 
> that Debbugs can put me on Cc *after* it has assigned a bug 
> number.

Ah, I didn’t know about that.

>> In general, I have rarely been able to successfully import a 
>> CTAN
>> package using the texlive importer, without the ‘source’ field 
>> missing,
>> perhaps it needs an update?
>
> Correct.  It’s not useful at this point.  I have worked on and off 
> again on a new TeX Live importer, but it’s not quite ready yet. 
> I’ll try to resume work on it soon.

That’s great to hear, looking forward to it.  :-)

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