TeXlive 2008 in Fedora 11?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 29 19:52:15 UTC 2009


Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Not necessarily in this case. From a thousand miles up, the process of
> creating texlive upstream basically involves taking packages from ctan
> and assembling them into the texlive tree using various scripts
> (notably ctan2tl and ctan2tds and others) which is then used to create
> the texlive distribution. I've been wondering if it would be possible
> to adapt these scripts to be used during RPM build time to package
> upstream ctan tarballs. More work needed though. An approach like this
> is worth considering though I think. Of course, this applies to
> packages and fonts mainly, not the tex binaries.

And who handles the dozens of review requests? Our review queue is already
flooded!

        Kevin Kofler




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