Re: Texlive version in fink

On 6/18/21 7:52 PM, Lucier, Bradley J wrote:
>> On Jun 18, 2021, at 8:32 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Archlinux's proposed patch doesn't help, but Debian's [1] gave me a plan to hardcode the TEXMFDIST path (FINKPREFIX/share) instead of using a relative path.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/debian-tex/texlive-nonbin/blob/abb2dd1e96620b8799808e5ed822072d71159be2/texlive-base/debian/patches/debian-tlmgr-usermode
>>
>> Patching /sw/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl (which is what texconfig runs) leads to this new error:
> 
> Ah, I don’t use the builtin TeXLive on Debian (or more precisely, Ubuntu) precisely because the configuration of paper size in TeX is woven into other system paper sizes, and I found it quite inconvenient.  I’m not sure that following Debian’s example in this regard is helpful, but I obviously don’t know.
> 
> It seems that the “out of the box” default paper size for Fink’s proposed texlive is US letter, and that works for me, so I don’t have to call “texconfig paper letter” explicitly.
> 
> I understand that the rest of the world that uses A4 paper is out of luck, but I’m happy with the current defaults.

I've created a new pull request that does an incremental version bump of 
texlive from our ancient 2014 to a not quite as old 2017. While 
obviously not as good as getting 2021 working, it seems to run fine on 
my end with the texconfig issues mentioned seemingly fixed. I was able 
to run `texconfig paper letter` (or a4) with no errors, and both 
texconfig-sys and texconfig-user seemed to put the conf files in the 
proper space. I was also able to convert a simple .tex file to .dvi as 
well as to .pdf.

https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/pull/843

Hanspeter



_______________________________________________
Fink-users mailing list
[email protected]
List archive:
https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/
Subscription management:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users