gdcm FTBFS: texlive broken in rawhide?

[Peter Robinson]

>> >> Package owner Jindrich Novy is no longer in Red Hat so I am not sure how
>> >> quickly it may get fixed.
>> >
>> >
>> > I really hope the next mantainer can manage a 14 mb spec file :)
>>
>>   In Mandriva I did a work very similar to current Fedora texlive, but I did
>> create almost 3k packages so that could update only was really required;
>> it should be possible to live with around 1.6k packages, but I preferred
>> to let upstream handle dependencies,  and match 1 to 1 upstream
>> packages (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive). But,
>> I am still to start updating it again, now in OpenMandriva, was just left
>> in a stable state as of like 6 months ago...
>>
>>   But something like that would not be viable in Fedora, if needing a
>> review request and approval for every small package...
>
> The single SRPM was sold as a *feature* when 2012 was added:
>
> "The centralized packaging (i.e. everything is generated and built form
> single SRPM) also allows simpler maintenance than having several
> thousands separate TeX packages."
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive
>
> When I had occasion to look at how texlive is built a few months back it
> struck me as the most hideous packaging thing I've ever come across, but
> that's just MHO.
>
> In case anyone isn't aware: you're not even supposed to manage the 14MB
> spec file, you are supposed to manage the C code and ersatz build system
> which *generates* the 14MB spec file.
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/tl2rpm.c - I have to
> admit, when I was trying to fix a bug, I could never get to the point of
> getting that to compile and spit out the .spec file at all. I think
> you're supposed to run
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/b_one_srpm , but it
> failed in weird ways, for me.

I would be hoping with the maintainers departure from Red Hat he might
have handed over both the package and the knowledge to one of his team
members...

Peter