New TeXLive Install Package

[Richard Koch]

Folks,

I just remade the TeX Live 2025 install package. It is in the pretest
as

     mactex-texlive-20250222.pkg

It installs fine on my machine. My fairly recent machine runs
Sequoia and the entire install, including running scripts at the
end, took slightly less than 3 minutes.

It has been reported that this package fails with an error on
older Intel machines. The special machine in question was
running Mojave. So tests on older machines, particularly Intel,
would be appreciated.

The evidence suggests that the package installs correctly and the
error occurs when running the post-install script.
Apparently Apple's installer aborts if running the post-install
script takes longer than 10 minutes. This post install script first sets
paper size and sets up the "tex-dist" structure. This should
be very rapid. Thus the script has already made
the new TeX Live 2025 the default distribution when the error
occurs.

At the very end, the post install script calls

	/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/universal-darwin/fmtutil-sys --all

	/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/universal-darwin/updmap-sys

If installation fails, you can call these scripts yourself in Terminal.
Since we install in a root location, start each command with sudo.

Dick Koch