Re: Texlive

[Andreas Enge]

Am Sonntag, 3. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> OK. So the catalogs are built once for all during the build, right?

 

Yes, over the full content of the texlive distribution.

 

> Perhaps “data” would be a (slightly) more descriptive name?

 

Okay, why not; I used "share" because normally the subdirectories end up in "share".

 

> Looks like your approach works fine, but maybe we could still ask Karl

> Berry to see what he thinks?

 

This would be an opportunity to ask him a few questions, so why not.

 

> > But everything is FSF and Debian free. How about adding a license

> > "mixed" or "fsf-free"? Or do you have a good suggestion?

> Yes, or we could just export the ‘license’ constructor from (guix

> licenses). That would allow us to make a custom <license> objects when

> needed, like here.

 

Or we could leave it empty in some way; just call it "free"? It is clear that we will only package free software; so a license field that can only state "a collection of free licenses, for details, see the source" conveys really no information at all. So I do not see what to construct here. My suggestion:

 

(define fsf

(license "fsf"

"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"

"A collection of free licenses according to the FSF, see the source for details."))

 

> And the good thing is that now that you’ve done TeX Live and netpbm,

> you’ll find that Xorg is really piece of cake. :-)

 

After looking at it, my impression is that at least the build process should be much easier (once the right order of installation determined).

 

> > (define-public texlive

> >

> > (package

> >

> > (name "texlive")

> > (version "2012")

> Should be 20120701 no?

 

There is one edition per year, commonly refered to as "TeX Live 20YY"; so there is no reason to go into more datails.

 

> (with-directory-excursion bin

> (for-each symlink

> '("pdftex" "pdftex" "xetex" "luatex" "luatex.1")

> '("latex" "pdflatex" "xelatex" "lualatex" "lualatex.1")))

 

Very elegant, thanks for the suggestion! But actually, this manual symlink phase has become superfluous by some directoty related configure flags I just added.

 

> > (mkdir "texlive-extra")

> > (chdir "texlive-extra")

> > (apply unpack (list #:source texlive-extra))

> > (apply patch-source-shebangs (list #:source

> > texlive-extra)) (system* "mv" "tlpkg" share)

> > (chdir "../..")

>

> When you have paired ‘cd foo’ and ‘cd ..’, you can instead use

> ‘with-directory-excursion’, as shown above.

 

Okay. Here it is less useful, since "unpack" changes directories, so a "chdir ".."" will remain in any case.

 

Andreas