On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:03:36 +0200, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > > > Now for the exciting (but time consuming) news: > > > > The road to a stable TeXLive in Gentoo: > > > > 1. Stabilize tetex-3.0_p1[3]. We are almost done, there are very few > > real bugs left, and tetex-3.0_p1 is already much more stable than > > tetex-2 ever was. I hope this will happen in the next month. > > This is long overdue - again if I can help please let me know. I use > this all the time and have been doing so for the last year. Do you have > a stabilisation tracker bug set up for this yet?
Yes, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124511 > > > > 3. Create a TeXLive ebuild and put it onto ~arch and have ~arch user > > switch over. > > This requires us to figure out how to create a texmf-tree. In the past > > Thomas Esser created a very solid (although containing rather old > > versions) texmf-tree with packages taken from ctan[5]. > > There are several possibilities: > > 3.1 Create our own texmf-tree (can largely be automated by scripting). > > 3.2 Use MikTeX package manager[6] which was ported to Linux. > > 3.3 Use something similar to the g-cpan.pl script used by perl, to > > install packages from ctan[7]. > > I haven't evaluated the possibilities yet, but comments are more than > > welcome! > > > I would favour option 3.1 personally, and it would be great to keep our > LaTeX packages more up to date as I sometimes have to manually update > these packages. I agree, but the question is to see how far we can automate the process. CTAN is a really large database and even the MikTeX package manager has only a fraction of it. Regards, /Alexandre -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Please copy me in your ~/.signature.
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