[OS X TeX] i-Package updates

[Bruno Voisin]

To those using gwTeX and other i-Packages through i-Installer: in  
case you are willing to keep track of updates, you may be interested  
to know that Gerben is no longer posting update announcements here,  
but he is posting them to the Ii-Announce list <http://mail.rna.nl/ 
mailman/listinfo/ii2-announce> (very low-traffic, only announcements  
there).

Hence, in order to get up-to-date, you should either subscribe to  
this list, or ask i-Installer to automatically check for package  
updates (in Preferences > Other > Checks).

Following are for example the last three announcements.

Bruno Voisin


> De : Gerben Wierda
> Date : 26 février 2007 09:07:01 HNEC
> À : ii2-announce
> Objet : [Ii2-announce] netpbm i-Package updated
>
> This was one problem on my todo list still. Netpbm does not install  
> as most public domain software packages do. Trying to update it to  
> a later version played havoc with my install scripts (which I  
> failed to notice) and the result was a very broken i-Package that  
> some have installed.
>
> This left the following in your /usr/local tree:
>
> On Oct 30, 2006, at 15:48 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 30 oct. 06 à 15:07, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>>
>>> Unrelated: installing the netpbm i-Package leaves a few files  
>>> behind:
>>>
>>> theo8mc233:~ bvoisin$ ls -l /usr/local/netpbm*
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin    681 Sep 30 20:06 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.iibless.plist
>>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    533 Sep 30 22:02 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.prepare
>>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  14976 Sep 30 22:44 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.remove
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin   3422 Sep 27 21:12 /usr/local/netpbm.rtf
>>
>> Other potential leftovers:
>>
>> /usr/local/installnetpbm
>> /usr/local/Makefile
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.noX11
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.X11
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.X11.thisworks
>
> On install the updated netpbm i-Package (containing the latest  
> super stable netpbm release) will remove that garbage. It will do  
> that carefully. All the Makefiles will only be removed if they  
> contain netpbm stuff. So, this will not remove your own Makefile  
> from /usr/local if you happen to have one.
>
> G


> De : Gerben Wierda
> Date : 6 mars 2007 22:52:07 HNEC
> À : ii2-announce
> Objet : [Ii2-announce] Two updated i-Packages: freetype and  
> ImageMagick
>
> Freetype has been updated to version 2.3.1 form 2.2.1
> ImageMagick has been updated to 6.3.3 from 6.2.9
>
> Note that ImageMagick has been compiled without fontconfig support  
> as I am experiencing conflicts between Apple's very outdated  
> fontconfig and the more recent version I have installed on my build  
> systems. I have no idea what the consequences are (for graphics  
> formats probably not that much) and I am looking into fixing this
>
> G
>
> PS. I am waiting for a FontForge update to fix a build problem that  
> is in the current version. Until then I cannot update.


> De : Gerben Wierda
> Date : 9 mars 2007 17:49:18 HNEC
> À : ii2-announce
> Objet : [Ii2-announce] TeX i-Package minor update
>
> I have added the beamer fix.
>
> G

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