[tldistro] Packaging challenges

[Vladimír Čunát]

Hello,

currently I am working on a reasonable texlive packaging for Nix (
http://nixos.org ), and I would like to ask a few questions.

My plan for packaging is to build binaries from
texlive-20150521-source.tar.xz and supply it by downloading and
unpacking individual packages according to scheme/collection choice
(because the whole texmf tarball is huge). Building the sources seems
working well and I extract info I need from texlive.tpldb.

A major pitfall I can see now:
(1) the binaries seem to require mktexlsr.pl but I can't see it in the
individual packages (only the big texmf tarball). What am I doing wrong?
Moreover, there are some collisions between what the source build
installs and some files from individual packages -- it's unclear to me
which is preferable.

Another question:
(2) we would probably prefer to use packages yearly releases instead of
following everyday updates; there is
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final/
but I don't see it mirrored. Would you consider changing that? We
certainly can't provide as good mirror network as ctan.org, and I would
think others might also find it useful.

Thanks,
Vladimir


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