announcement: new texlive rpm

announcement: new texlive rpm

[Peter Münster]

Hello,

there is a new texlive rpm on http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/
Goals and features of this package:
- easy installation
  ( rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.spm )
- easy maintenance of ConTeXt-texmf tree
  ( updateConTeXt.sh )
- texmf-local tree that won't be touched by rpm (for personal files)
- support for URW Garamond
- support for Adobe eurofont
- support for ruby versions of ConTeXt scripts
- latest TeX-live
- latest ConTeXt
- latest pdfTeX
- latest MetaPost

See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeX-live

Tested on SuSE-10.1.

Feedback is welcome!
Cheers, Peter

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Re: announcement: new texlive rpm

[luigi scarso]

GREAT !!

On 1/13/07, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there is a new texlive rpm on http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/
> Goals and features of this package:
> - easy installation
>   ( rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.spm )
> - easy maintenance of ConTeXt-texmf tree
>   ( updateConTeXt.sh )
> - texmf-local tree that won't be touched by rpm (for personal files)
> - support for URW Garamond
> - support for Adobe eurofont
> - support for ruby versions of ConTeXt scripts
> - latest TeX-live
> - latest ConTeXt
> - latest pdfTeX
> - latest MetaPost
>
> See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeX-live
>
> Tested on SuSE-10.1.
>
> Feedback is welcome!
> Cheers, Peter
>
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> http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
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Re: announcement: new texlive rpm

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Peter,

> there is a new texlive rpm on http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/
> - easy installation:
> rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.spm 

Here rpm segfaults using that rebuild command (using rpm 4.4.1 on
Ubuntu/i386).  I tried to compile the latest version of rpm from source,
in order to check whether the bug had been fixed, but couldn't get the
recompilation to work.  So I never managed to try your rpm package.

It seems it's a real rpm bug:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227333>

-Sanjoy

`A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their
 master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the
 last extremes of injustice and oppression.'  (Gibbon)  

Re: announcement: new texlive rpm

[Peter Münster]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

> > there is a new texlive rpm on http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/
> > - easy installation:
> > rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.spm 
> 
> Here rpm segfaults using that rebuild command (using rpm 4.4.1 on
> Ubuntu/i386).  I tried to compile the latest version of rpm from source,
> in order to check whether the bug had been fixed, but couldn't get the
> recompilation to work.  So I never managed to try your rpm package.

Hello Sanjoy,

I've never had such a problem, but my rpm versions are much older...

What happens, if you do

cd /tmp
wget http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.nosrc.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild --force /tmp/texlive.nosrc.rpm

?

Or yet another possibility:

cd /tmp
wget http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.nosrc.rpm
rpm -i /tmp/texlive.nosrc.rpm
rpmbuild -bb --force /usr/src/packages/SPECS/texlive.spec


> It seems it's a real rpm bug:
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227333>

(As suggested on this page, I renamed the texlive.spm to texlive.nosrc.rpm)

Cheers, Peter

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