From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#26353: TeX Live Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:06:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87shji5sza.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGoBK-0007DP-N5 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:08:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGoBG-0005I6-O1 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:08:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGoBG-0005Hp-LU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:08:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGoBG-000779-Hh for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:08:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <871sr294e6.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:32:01 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: 26353@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > So=E2=80=A6 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=E2=80=99ve already made some progress on this end, but I need t= o 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=E2=80=99s > mainly error-driven. Yeah kpathsea and all that. > I=E2=80=99m close to finishing the bootstrap of latex-base. Once that=E2= =80=99s done I > should be able to finish the texlive-build-system, and then I=E2=80=99ll = try > building the other latex packages that are distributed with Texlive. > There=E2=80=99s more to Texlive (e.g. xetex packages), but I=E2=80=99ll t= ake care of > that later. > > One thing that=E2=80=99s still unknown at this point is how the profile h= ook > should work, but I=E2=80=99ll figure this out as I learn more about the s= earch > paths and the like. OK, we=E2=80=99ll see. Thank you for this brave effort! Ludo=E2=80=99.