Re: Texlive version in fink

> On Jul 31, 2021, at 10:56 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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

I made some progress, but it failed with

ln -s pdftex /opt/sw/src/fink.build/root-texlive-20170524-1/opt/sw/bin/pdfxmltex

echo "Creating a local texmf tree, and symlinking it into place ..."
Creating a local texmf tree, and symlinking it into place ...
 mkdir -p /opt/sw/src/fink.build/root-texlive-20170524-1/opt/sw/etc/texmf.local
 /opt/sw/bin/mktexlsr /opt/sw/src/fink.build/root-texlive-20170524-1/opt/sw/etc/texmf.local
/tmp/fink.to3Mr: line 19: /opt/sw/bin/mktexlsr: No such file or directory
### execution of /tmp/fink.to3Mr failed, exit code 1
### execution of /tmp/fink.0DEV6 failed, exit code 1
Removing runtime build-lock...
Removing build-lock package...
/opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-texlive-20170524-1
(Reading database ... 287926 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fink-buildlock-texlive-20170524-1 ...
Failed: phase installing: texlive-20170524-1 failed

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