Re: Archlinux: updated BPKGBUILD for luametatex

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 12/15/2021 9:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Michal Vlasák via ntg-context wrote:
> 
>> On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 7:28 PM CET, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
>>> On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
>>>>
>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
>>>>
>>>> Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
>>>>
>>>> The following modules are installed by default:
>>>>       filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
>>>>
>>>> You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that.
>>> Just curious ... we have this
>>>
>>>> mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
>>>
>>> which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged
>>> as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of
>>> became bug=feature for practical reasons)
>>>
>>> i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to
>>> download from .. are there zips?
>>
>> Not sure if it's for every package, but should be just
>>
>>      "http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. ".zip"
>>
>> in scripts.ctan.details.
> 
> This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have
> 
> https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip
> 
> which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists:
> 
> http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip
> 
> which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, it safer to use
> 
>      "http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. "tds.zip"
> 
> But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the default zip is already TDS compliant). For example:
> 
>      https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter
> 
> has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link.
> 
> In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic.
sure, once you know what/where it's not that much work and I admit that 
I only downloaded tikz for testing the 'loading bug' and a few fonts 
during my tex life)

btw, when I fetched tikz a few days ago I could not fetch the zip from 
the browser because it complained about some security issue but the 
command line wget worked ok

another aspect of additional files is that I like to keep my system 
uncluttered so e.g when I install fonts we just need the open type files 
that I then install in texmf-fonts/fonts/data/<author>/* instead of 
bothering about forther structure (in fact it doesn't really matter much 
where files end up as long as there is some system behind it)

Hans

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