Romain Tartière <rom...@freebsd.org> wrote in <20120930153124.ga4...@blogreen.org>:
ro> Hi! ro> ro> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:17:03AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: ro> > My second concern was discussed when Dominic Fandrey called for testing this ro> > port: at least 2 people have been working on texlive with different approach: ro> > hrs and romain. ro> > ro> > In particular Romain and I discussed on merging texlive to the ports tree based ro> > on http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ he has been contacted some company ro> > to mirror the splitted distfiles for us, and was suppose to resumer his work on ro> > this when back from vacations which should be the case now given that he has ro> > done some commit last week :D ro> > ro> > I CCed both hrs and romain so they can give their opinion and the status of ro> > their work. ro> ro> Yes, after 2 months away, I am back :-) ro> ro> While I was away, ro> - I received access to a jail for hosting versionned distfiles; ro> - I received a mail from hrs@ where he exposes a migration plan to ro> TeX Live and asked for comments / suggestions. ro> ro> I replied to hrs@ and told him I would be happy to help, but have no ro> feedback yet. ro> ro> Regarding the mirror of versionned distfiles, I have everything to set ro> it up I think, and I just have to take some time to hack something that ro> do the right thing and use it in my ports. However, since there are ro> some boring flaws in the updating infrastructure, I postponed this, ro> thinking that an answer from hrs@ would have lead to working on funnier ro> things (with a better infrastructure). While I have no news, I may ro> however setup the repository, it won't hurt I guess. Sorry, I was swamped with real life issues and could not respond in a timely manner. In short, what I am working on is splitting the texlive distribution into pieces about ~200 ports (tex engines and macro packages) and generating versioned distfiles from a local CTAN mirror. A port just for installing whole part of texlive is difficult to handle in the ports tree because there are many software that have to depend on a part of it but texlive is really huge. I am considering to remove print/teTeX* (since I am the maintainer) and update the dependencies to use the modular texlive ports seamlessly. I have several prototype but I need to fix them to some recent changes in the ports tree before making one public for review. Although I was thinking it could be done in September, it didn't unfortunately. I will continue to work on it and probably make it in public after EuroBSDCon. -- Hiroki
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