tex is availabe as an old ISO /n/sources/extra/tex.iso.bz2, this expects you to have kfs as your main filesystem - but you can fake this with a couple of binds before running replica/pull.
I installed this image, recompiled it, and pushed it out as a contrib package steve/tex. I had a look at updating the package to a more curent version (this source is circa 1998) but it required too mych delving for an occasional tex user such as myself. beware, both tex packages are bigger than you might expect. -Steve
