<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Richard Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@math.uoregon.edu" class="">koch@math.uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) I installed previous betas of Yosemite on a fresh partition and used MacTeX to install</div><div class="">TeX. That worked fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately, I didn't try the update route, with MacTeX already installed. You report a one hour</div><div class="">delay installing this way. Our other user reported a 12 hour delay. Clearly we need to investigate,</div><div class="">and probably warn users that it is easier to uninstall TeX Live, update, and then do a clean install of</div><div class="">MacTeX.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class="">You are correct. I should point out I have a new MacBook Pro with a 2.3 Ghz i7 processor and a SSD, so I expect it to be fast. I would warn users of long wait times with a big /usr/local tree and give them the option deleting it and reinstalling or just waiting. My problem was the unexpected hang and concern that the installation crashed w/o error. I did see reports on Apples’s site of waits up to 40 hrs. No system info was provided.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) The author of the TeX Dist Pref Pane is aware of a problem, but I don't know whether</div><div class="">he is working on a solution.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I appreciate the effort</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I constructed a similar Pref Pane, which you can get at</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/LocalTeX.zip" class="">http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/LocalTeX.zip</a></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><div>I will take a look. May take a bit, this will be a big week at work...</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This zip gives you a pref pane, a pdf explaining it, and full source. This pane doesn't</div><div class="">change any data used by the original pane, and can be used in conjunction with it or</div><div class="">instead of it. The one disadvantage is that it puts uses as symbolic link to the binaries</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~/Library/TeX/LocalTeX/texbin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thus the disadvantage is that you must reconfigure your GUI apps, but the advantages are</div><div class="">that</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) Apple sometimes removes /usr/texbin, but doesn't remove items in ~/Library</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) This location is user writeable, so users can have independent default TeX</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>distributions</div></div></div></blockquote><br class="">Understandable choices. I just use the homebrew approach and change ownership of /usr/local to my userid. This is obviously designed for personal computers… </div><div><br class=""></div><div>I should also note that I found a much easier workaround on stack overflow for the environment issue</div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/yosemite-launchd-conf-no-longer-work" class="">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/yosemite-launchd-conf-no-longer-work</a></div><div>I made the AppleScript app described and set it to run on startup. Zero hassle...</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:koch@math.uoregon.edu" class="">koch@math.uoregon.edu</a></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">PS: Did you already have the MacTeX install package, or did you download it again. I ask</div><div class="">because Apple has changed signing methods and I haven't yet tested if our packages needs</div><div class="">to be resigned.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I used the original installer from my backup drive. I don’t remember a signing issue; I’m so used to going into the Security Panel and allowing applications from sources (like MacTeX) that I trust that it wasn’t high on my list of things to notice....</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best regards</div><div>John Minter</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>