From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#26353: TeX Live Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:14:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87shjg7ujh.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170403202146.2a9317ce@scratchpost.org> <87poghdbge.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvb8f2a7.fsf@gnu.org> <20170423021448.6bcb3235@scratchpost.org> <871ss83a1x.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87zievhiqo.fsf@elephly.net> <871sr294e6.fsf@elephly.net> <87shji5sza.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHEVt-0000Ub-Lj for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:15:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHEVq-0003Wj-GF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:15:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHEVq-0003WC-DO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:15:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dHEVq-00047M-1m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:15:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87shji5sza.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 26353@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus 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 GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net