Re: How can I make a Gentoo Linux package for ConTeXt LMTX?

["amano.kenji via ntg-context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/texmf-context.zip is not versioned.

If the file changes later, linux distributions refuse to use the file.

I wish ConTeXt and LuaMetaTex were versioned and provided `offline` build instructions. The vast majority of programs are versioned and can be built easily offline. Even if they were distributed as binary files, if they are versioned, I can still make linux packages out of them.

------- Original Message -------
On Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 9:56 PM, Max Chernoff <mseven@telus.net> wrote:


> Okay, I'm seeing a few separate issues here.
>
> 1. Gentoo expects to compile everything from source.
>
> This isn't an option here since LuaMetaTeX doesn't have any source
> available (yet). So for the time being, you'll need to use the provided
> binaries. These support pretty much every architecture, so this
> shouldn't really be a problem.
>
> 2. You want to install ConTeXt LMTX system-wide.
>
> This is doable with the standard Linux installer script. Just make sure
> to run the script as root and install the files in /opt/context. This is
> what I've done on my system, and it works quite well.
>
> $ ls -l $(type -p context)
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 28 00:33 /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context -> luametatex*
>
>
> 3. You want to install ConTeXt without any network access.
>
> The easiest way to do this would be to install on a system with
> internet, then just copy over the files.
>
> If you want to use the "original" installer files, it shouldn't be
> impossible, but probably not too easy either. (All steps below are
> untested)
>
> The platform-independent stuff is all in one big zip, located at:
>
> http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/texmf-context.zip
>
> Unzip this file as "<context root>/tex/texmf-context/".
>
>
> Then you also need to download all of the binaries. You will need to
> download all of the paths listed in this file:
>
> http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64.tma
>
> All of those files need to be placed in "<context root>/tex/texmf-linux-
>
> 64/bin".
>
> Then to finish installing you'll need to run "mtxrun --generate" and
> "context --make". There are probably a bunch of other steps that I'm
> missing, but this should get you close.
>
> Again, probably easier to just use the regular installer.
>
> 4. ConTeXt is really picky about texmfcnf stuff.
>
> This is an issue that I've had too:
>
> https://github.com/latex3/l3build/issues/232
>
> Pretty much any modification of anything texmfcnf-related with ConTeXt
> will completely prevent it from running. There's a thread discussing the
> problem (but with no real solutions) here:
>
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2020-September/046099.html
>
> And a Wiki page here:
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Custom_Configuration
>
> I agree that this texmfcnf stuff makes it really difficult to install or
> use ConTeXt with any kind of custom paths. Does anyone know how to
> properly configure a texmfcnf with custom paths?
>
> Hopefully this is of some help.
> -- Max
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