[tex-live] tl2rpm: TeX Live 2008 packages to rpm converter

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Tue Aug 19 10:46:53 CEST 2008


Hi Karl,

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:20:12PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Jindrich,
> 
>     collection-graphicstools
>     - caused by missing bin-pngtools for all Unix-like arches
>     collection-xetex
>     - caused by missing xecyr package for Unix-like arches
> 
> Can't you just consider them empty packages when they are for Windows
> only?  That is what we do, more or less.

The problem is that there is "depend xecyr.ARCH" in section related to
xecyr in the texlive.tlpdb so there is no way for a dependency
resolver to figure out the package is available solely for win32.
Replacing it with "depend xecyr.win32" will solve it.

The similar case is collection-wintools. It is for win32 arch exclusively but
there is no way to find it out. Is it possible to add something like
"exclusivearch win32" or similar to such packages to reflect they are
useless for other arches? Currently I have it manually blacklisted.

> (The existence of xecyr is a mistake, by the way.  I'll fix that eventually.)
> 
>     what prevented me to include scheme-gust, scheme-full and
>     scheme-medium so they are excluded from the above lists.
> 
> I'm not sure what role schemes play in your rpm world, if any, but in
> principle scheme-full is very important!  It is, in fact, the default as
> far as our "native" installation goes and I hope installing everything
> will be the default for Fedora too.

The schemes are generated from metadata from TeX Live so they are
basically the same. I agree that including scheme-full is essential,
but I'm not sure whether it should be default for the downstream
packaging. Initially I thought that scheme-basic will suffice. The
reason for it is that not everybody needs full TeX Live installation
and also many programs have build dependencies to TeX Live just to
build documentation. So installing scheme-full to fullfil that seems a
waste of resources to me. On the other hand, user who wants a full
TeX Live installation could have it via "yum instal 
texlive-scheme-full". Are you ok with it?

Thanks,
Jindrich

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