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I will repost, what I got from Romain
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Hi
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:09:13PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote:
> I was wondering, why texlive still isn't included in FreeBSD ports
> collection (Like normal ports)?
I really have to write a complete anwser for that question and post it
on the Internet: every once a while, I got it, and I answer with more or
less details, but, apart from the person asking the question nobody
knows how bad I feel regarding to this situation...
Because I don't have much time to do this, we'll have to wait a bit, so
I will only copy/paste parts of e-mais I have send to reply to this
question. There will be some redundancy, but you should have an idea of
what I feel at the end ;-)
If you want more details on some point, feel free to ask!
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:50:40 +0100
Well, as Hiroki Sato is also working on it and has explained how cool
are his ports in the ports@ mailing list, I have just done the easiest
for me to have a TeXLive setup working on my computer while there is no
official TeXLive ports in the FreeBSD ports tree. In other word, 1577
new ports, and you have to fix any other port depending on *TeX* that
fails by hand.
As it worked quite good (one you have all you want installed), and I
know at least one other person interested in having something --- even
somewhat broken --- *now*, I have just updated the freebsd-texlive
google group repository [1] with latest TeXLive packages, tinderbuilt
the 1577 ports and created a tag.
If you can't wait for Hiroki's ports, you can merge them in your FreeBSD
ports tree, using portshaker [2] for example.
References:
1. Link http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/source/list
2. Link http://bsd-sharp.googlecode.com/svn/branches/portshaker/
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:52:02 +0200
I found that the situation was stalled for years, so I fixed the issue
myself and announced it. My solution was not perfect but it was a
started. However, some people have been "active" on the topic for years
and where not very happy with this.
Link http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-December/051895.html
Link http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-February/053195.html
So I decided to notstay with a ``not perfect, just working'' solution
and set up a set of scripts that should update everything on a daily
basis (if updates are available):
Link http://romain.blogreen.org/Blog/2009/05/TeXLive_for_FreeBSD_updated
Then I stopped thinking about it: I have TeXLive on my system and feel
very happy now! There is no plan to send a PR with 1577 new ports since
another solution that have been cooking for many years is supposed to be
available soon (soon have already been announced years ago, if you know
what I mean).
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(translated on the fly, sorry if it's not clear, I am quite busy, but if
I don't do this right now, I will never do it :-/ )
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:50:22 +0100
This is a somehow complex story... As of TeXLive 2008, it works (I
started to update to 2009 but since the project is not really fun, I
postponed it), but nothing will be pushed in the tree.
Everything began when I was too bored of using teTeX and seeing mails
of people saying "I am going to create TeXLive ports for FreeBSD" and
doing nothing. I did the work, and only then spoke about this in the
FreeBSD mailing-lists:
Link http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-December/051895.html
The thread is quite interesting, and this message from Hiroki Sato in
particular: he has been working on "TeXLive on FreeBSD" for 5 years
now:
Link http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-December/051899.html
Since that, no news... officially at least. I received a mail from him
where he tells me that everything is still staled in his work, that there
where some murder investigations at him working location, and that if I
wanted to help I just had to tell him, which I did, but I got no news
since that date.
I don't want to fight with him: I proposed a solution to provide TeXLive
on FreeBSD; I told him I was okay to help him improve his solution to
the same problem; and I have no news... I don't mind, I do have what I
need, it's just stupid to not make it available for everybody easily.
At some point, I though I could update to TeXLive 2009, and for that
occasion post to ports@ some message to say "TeXLive 2009 is available
in the FreeBSD-TeXLive repository!", and see if something happens... but
that was not as easy as I though (it compiles but some parts seems
to be missing, e.g. xelatex) and I don't have the motivation to go
further on (that being said, I happily accept patches!).
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:30:05 +0100
Hum, last time I wrote a single mail with both the 'TeXLive' and 'ports'
words to ports@, I got a reply from Hiroki Sato (hrs@) basically
telling me that he was on it for a while and about to commit something.
I got some news from time to time, basically telling me that he was
stalled.
The thread starts here (but I guess some messages are not attached to
the thread):
Link http://markmail.org/thread/4cpz57xhraguh6qx
Since a better solution was supposed to be pushed quickly, I just
enhanced my early hack to have TeXLive before it reach the ports tree.
I already did 2 updates for new TeXLive infrastructures, and my ports
are updated on a daily basis. This fits my needs but I don't plan to
push it because it's still a hack: Hiroki's ports are supposed to split
all tools installed by the single print/texlive-core package. For now,
this port is a requirement for all other freebsd-texlive ports; it
installs a LOT of binaries and most of them are useless to most users.
Maybe you can ask hrs@ if he has any news or is wanting any help (I
offered my help 2 years ago, but while he accepted it, I got no call for
help from that time). In late 2008, he said « I have three sort of
experimental ports of texlive now ». I really would like to know what
is the situation today...
To sum up my position:
- I don't want to waste my time doing something somebody is supposed to
be working on;
- I use TeXLive (mainly XeTeX) on a regular basis so I don't mind
maintaining the freebsd-texlive project until some better solution is
deployed in the FreeBSD ports tree;
- I am okay to help setting up a new infrastructure (but I have very
few free time compared to the situation 2 years ago).
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One more point, I received a mail with strong feelings (troll /
flamewar) about all this. Since it is somebody else mail, and I don't
know if the author would like or not me to forward it, I prefer to not
copy/paste it to you unless you agree to not share it with anybody else.
Just tell me that it's okay for you. It does not contain any
revelation, but if you remove the part of trolling, it can be an
interesting reading (and it changed the way I maintained
FreeBSD-TeXLive).
> It works pretty dam well :D (except from distfiles without version
> numbers)
Thanks! For sure your contributions makes it even better! And no, I
have not forgotten the issues on google-code which are still open ;-)
I will probably not be at home next week, and might not have an Internet
access, so in case of request, don't be surprised if I don't reply.
Romain
Hopefully he will explain all this on some website soon
Frankly If you ask me there is Only One FreeBSD TexLive project, and that is
http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/
If there is anything else, it's a joke (try to search FreeBSD texlive, on google, yahoo, yandex or ixquick - Only one FreeBSD TexLive project)