Texlive packaging (Was: A proposal for Fedora updates)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Apr 14 01:31:59 UTC 2015


Jindrich Novy wrote:
> What's wrong with it? It is autogenerated, you are not supposed to touch
> the spec file directly but edit texlive.spec.template and regenerate the
> spec file by tl2rpm. All subpackages are generated with correct
> dependencies (at least according to upstream metadata) and packages with
> wrong non-free licences are excluded from build automatically.

The issue is that a security fix that really only required fixing one 
package's scriptlets ended up requiring users of Fedora 21 and even Fedora 
20 to update thousands of binary packages that didn't actually change at 
all. Over a slow Internet connection or with a slow CPU, this can take 
hours.

        Kevin Kofler



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