fixing kpathsea

[N. Andrew Walsh]

Hi Norbert,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

>
> FIrst of all, this is a *NO*GO*!!!
>

thank you for writing back, but I think I've maybe been unclear about my
situation. Let me reiterate what is happening:

1) I have used gentoo's package manager to install gentoo's texlive
packages onto the system. I use gentoo's package manager to update those
packages.
2) I installed a TUG install of TL into my user subdirectory, which was
/[$HOME]/tex-local/texlive/2017/ (despite that I keep updating it). This is
a separate install, and I use this tlmgr to update this install *only*. I
am uncertain why, but this local install uses root permissions, but only
updates its local subdirectory and packages. Nothing from the TUG install
touches system directories or paths.
3) gentoo hasn't updated its texlive packages since 2017, but has now
released new distribution packages. I am trying to install *these only*
using gentoo's installer. They are failing with the below error.

> ---------------------
> > * Building format texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
> > Can't locate mktexlsr.pl in @INC (@INC contains: //tlpkg
> > //texmf-dist/scripts/texlive /etc/perl
> > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.0
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30.0/x86_64-linux
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/lib64/perl5
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.0) at
> > /usr/bin/fmtutil line 23.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 25.
> >  * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2019-r1::gentoo failed (compile
> phase):
> > ------------------------
>
> That is a Gentoo bug. They have not patched tlmgr.pl so that it finds
> the correct modules.
>

gentoo's devs keep telling me that this is an error with my own kpathsea
setup, and not with the packages. Further, they tell me to add the TUG TL
path (ie, in my user directory) to the $PATH to get it to work. Is this
advice wrong?

In short: I want to manage my user-directory TUG TL using its own tlmgr,
but use the system packages to update the system TL, and not have them
conflict, or interact in any way. How do I do this?

Cheers,

A
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