[tex-live] Catalogue sources
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Fri Sep 11 18:53:35 CEST 2009
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> I have a couple of more questions about texlive.tlpdb if you don't
> mind.
No we don't mind ;-) (Although some might not believe it)
> 1. Files from tlpkg/tlperl/ are mentioned twice - as "binfiles
> arch=win32" in 00texlive.installer and as "runfiles" in tlperl.win32.
Yes. tlperl.win32 is the normal package. the 00texlive.installer is
a special package, like every package starting with 00texlive. We use
it to collect files we need in the installer packages (.zip, .tar.gz).
It is not a package you can install with tlmgr.
Does that explain your question.
> Some files from tlpkg/installer/ are also mentioned twice, are
> mentioned twice and tlpkg/installer/tar.exe -- even 3 times. Is it
> normal?
Twice is fine, in 00texlive.installer and tlperl or some other places.
Trice is bad. In fact it is true, I found that tar.exe is listed in:
00texlive.installer binfiles.win32, runfiles
texlive.infra.win32 binfiles
One entry in 00texlive.installer is wrong, I fixed it locally and
will commit ASAP.
> 2. There are some packages (like cyrillic.win32) without any files. Is
> it normal?
Hmm, the other cyrillic.ARCH packages have
rubibtex
rumakeindex
I guess we have to ask Akira about that. Or does anyone else here have
an idea? I not even know what these files are.
> * Package parrun has a strange value for catalogue-date:
>
> catalogue-date 2007-02-24 15:09:57 +0100 (Sat, 24 Feb 2007) $
>
> All other packages don't have anything after timezone.
We take the date string 1-1 from the TeX Catalogue, so it should be fixed
there. Robin?
> * Several packages are not on ctan and therefore have empty
> catalogue-ctan:
> colorsep
> dvips
> gustlib
> kpathsea
> latex
> texdoc
> times
> xmlplay
>
> More curious than erroneous.
That must be fixed in the Catalogue by adding
<ctan path='....'/>
I am sure that in one way or the other these things *are* on CTAN.
Hope that answers most of your questions.
Best wishes
Norbert
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