TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you

[Jindrich Novy]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:44:44PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Josh Boyer wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:27:26PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
>>> Hi all,
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>>> sorry for long mail. I thought it's a good idea to catch up with you
>>> guys before I update to the new TeX Live in rawhide and discuss possible
>>> problems. To make really long story short, the new TeX Live comes with
>>> a huge set of subpackages (about 4000) so what I want to ask you if it
>>> will just slow down yum and general updating terribly or is it
>>> generally acceptable? (considering the metadata size growth?)
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>> Thanks for the heads up.  I've also CC'd Seth for comments on potential
>> yum/repodata issues.
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> So F10 has ~17000 pkgs - in GA and updates combined.
> 11400 in GA (i386)
> 5500 updates (i386)
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> F11 will have ~13000 in GA
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> Texlive will bump that number by nearly 1/4th. That's a lot.
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> If these are subpkgs then the first time there is an update for ANY of  
> them, we will immediately have another 1/4th added.
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> So if we add texlive+subpkgs and then have an update the next week we've  
> just jumped the total number of updates up from about 6000 or so to 
> 10000.
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> I don't think yum will be THAT much worse for wear but the amount of  
> metadata the users will have to take will be MASSIVE. Now, I realize we  
> need to spend more time on metadata diffing but holy crap we're going to  
> hurt people in the meantime.
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> I'm betting we don't need 4000 subpkgs.

I can reduce the package count to about 2000 by merging docs+sources
and removing TL packages with bad licenses but it still doesn't sound too
good, does it?

Jindrich

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