Re: Texlive version in fink

On 8/10/21 8:55 PM, Lucier, Bradley J wrote:
>> 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

mktexlsr got moved from kpathsea to texlive at some point between 2017 
and 2021. You probably still have kpathsea-6.3.3 installed that belongs 
to 2021 installed, and so are missing it. You'll need to run the 
following to force downgrading kpathsea to the 2017 version (one line 
for the command):

fink install kpathsea-6.2.3-1 libkpathsea6-shlibs-6.2.3-1 
libkpathsea6-6.2.3-1 ptexenc1-1.3.5-1 ptexenc1-shlibs-1.3.5-1

Hanspeter



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