[tldistro] texmf_scripts installation

[Florian Schmaus]

On 04/07/2024 00.10, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Florian - thanks for writing.

Hi Karl - thanks for replying. :)


>      Gentoo currently links mktexlsr ò mktexlsr.pl, when it should be
>      mktexlsr ò mktexlsr (if I understand correctly).
> 
> Right.
> 
>      I do not see any special handing for mktexlsr.pl
> 
> mktexlsr.pl is simply not listed in TL's linked_scripts/Makefile[.am],
> thus no link is created for it in TL's make install.
> 
>      How can we determine which linked scripts Gentoo should symlink
>      and which not?
> 
> 1) Current answer: instead of doing a directory listing of
> linked_scripts (I gather that's what's happening?), you can read
> the linked_scripts/scripts.lst file to determine the targets of the
> symlinks.

Parsing scripts.lst is already exactly what we are doing [1]. :)

However, mktexlsr.pl was previously listed in scripts.lst [2] and then 
removed [3]. For TexLive 2023, we parse the a state of texlive.git [4] 
where mktexlsr.pl is included in scripts.lst. Seems like we were lucky 
enough to hit this narrow time window.

For now, I will simply adjust our tooling to always exclude mktexlsr.pl.

Are there any other scripts in scripts.lst we should exclude as well?


> 2) Near future answer: I plan to autocreate a second file that lists
> both the targets and the link names, to eliminate the exceptions.  I
> don't have an ETA, but it is pretty high on my list.  (If someone else
> wants to tweak Makefile.am to do this, so much the better.) --thanks, karl.

Sounds sensible.

Thanks!

- Flow


1: 
https://gitlab.gentoo.org/flow/tex-ebuild-o-mat/-/blob/4a0e9a462d1ae03cda037b1183074aeb9324559c/main/src/eu/geekplace/tex/LinkedScripts.scala#L6
2: 
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/f744029b0fc73c79a655443fa744f4d281cb23b8
3: 
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/3b86c8ec2658ee3e5a8eae4f35aca8941e3932c2#diff-eb9b11baffff8726489a5d902da103837c40e653c9f9cb97a2302cb67c60a706L182
4: 
https://git.texlive.info/texlive/commit/?id=e50928cec6ab5ebd6b6a240787811784e3a96b43
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