From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 26353@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26353: TeX Live
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:14:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shjg7ujh.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shji5sza.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> So… I already have a Texlive importer that fetches things from SVN
>> (because the tarballs on CTAN are not versioned).
>
> Awesome!
>
>> The texmf-dist tarball actually seems to include a couple of generated
>> files (such as latex.ltx), which needs to be bootstrapped with initex
>> first. I’ve already made some progress on this end, but I need to first
>> build a few metafont fonts.
>>
>> The hardest part here is to override search paths and figure out
>> dependencies. This is a very slow process right now, because it’s
>> mainly error-driven.
>
> Yeah kpathsea and all that.
>
>> I’m close to finishing the bootstrap of latex-base. Once that’s done I
>> should be able to finish the texlive-build-system, and then I’ll try
>> building the other latex packages that are distributed with Texlive.
>> There’s more to Texlive (e.g. xetex packages), but I’ll take care of
>> that later.
>>
>> One thing that’s still unknown at this point is how the profile hook
>> should work, but I’ll figure this out as I learn more about the search
>> paths and the like.
>
> OK, we’ll see.
I submitted a new bug for this:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27217
…because this allows us the satisfaction of closing this bug once it’s
done; and because we can keep track of progress there.
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-03 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-03 18:56 bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-12 13:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-22 23:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 0:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-01 14:51 ` bug#26353: TeX Live Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-01 15:11 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-01 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-01 11:17 ` ng0
2017-05-02 6:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-02 8:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-02 15:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-03 19:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-04-23 2:03 ` bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-01 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-01 10:57 ` bug#26353: VFS name encoding Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-01 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-14 22:28 ` bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-12-15 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-09 9:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-06-20 8:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19 20:17 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-19 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
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