[Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

[Walter Cazzola]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote:

> Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 13:55 +0100, Walter Cazzola a écrit :

> a solution could be to build an empty RPM that will simply contain a
> "Provides: texlive > 2007" or something like this to fool Fedora
> packages requiring a LaTeX distribution.

Your idea looks interesting but doesn't work. I've just installed (as
yum localinstall) the rpm generated by the attached rpm and when I try
to install a2ps I get:

  Dependencies Resolved

  =====================================
   Package
  =====================================
  Installing:
   a2ps
  Installing for dependencies:
   html2ps
   kpathsea
   tex-preview
   texinfo-tex
   texlive
   texlive-dvips
   texlive-latex
   texlive-texmf
   texlive-texmf-dvips
   texlive-texmf-errata
   texlive-texmf-errata-dvips
   texlive-texmf-errata-fonts
   texlive-texmf-errata-latex
   texlive-texmf-fonts
   texlive-texmf-latex
   texlive-utils

  Transaction Summary
  =====================================
  Install      17 Package(s)

  Total download size: 61 M
  Installed size: 159 M
  Is this ok [y/N]: n

That is not what I desire.

The fake rpm is correctly installed:

   >yum list installed|grep texlive
   texlive2010-fake.noarch            1.0-1.fc13 @/texlive2010-fake-1.0-1.fc13.noarch

Any other suggestion?

Walter

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Name:	 texlive2010-fake	
Version: 1.0	
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: This is a fake TeXLive package
Source0: fake.tgz
Group:   System Environment/Base
License: GPLv2 and BSD and Public Domain and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and LPPL	
BuildRoot:	%(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)

Provides: texlive > 2007

%description
This was necessary to have a tlmgr-based installation of texlive and all the rpm packages that requires texlive (e.g., a2ps and R-core) still installable.

%prep

%build

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc

%changelog