texlive distfile issues
Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Apr 2026 11:16:44 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages |
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The latest Darwin bulk build has exposed a problem with the texlive
distribution:
https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/14.5/arm64/20260403T191802Z/report.html
https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/14.5/arm64/20260403T191802Z/kpathsea-6.4.2/checksum.log
There are at least two issues:
* The primary MASTER_SITE is set to ftp://tug.org, which appears to be
temperamental. I can fetch from it from my home, but not from the
network my macOS host is on (which is otherwise absolutely fine
fetching from the rest of the internet). I don't know if they are
performing large network blocks or something.
* The texlive-20260301-source.tar.xz file downloaded from the second
MASTER_SITE (https://mirrors.ctan.org) differs from the one
distributed by tug.org, and causes the BLAKE2s checksum failure.
The latter in particular is really concerning. Are upstream in a habit
of overwriting published distfiles or something?
Given the unreliability of ftp://tug.org I think it would also make
sense to reorder the MASTER_SITES in texlive/Makefile.common, and
possibly add some additional upstream sites to avoid FTP issues.
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