Re: tetex rpm's

Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:53:05 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Organization Oxford University Computing Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
>>> No, I don't run Debian - but that is cool.
>>> debian packages though don't work well with rpm based distributions.
>> Please don't duplicate effort.
> 
> meaning: please everyone switch to using debian?
> 
> or what?

I am not sure what Martin means, but my take on this
is that Norbert Preining has put a LOT of effort into a script
which builds Debian packages from the TeX Live
master tree. It would be well worth trying to write a different
output module on that to generate an RPM instead of a DEB.
Maybe it wouldn't work, but it would be good to try.

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