Hi,
CC: TeX team
For context, TeX (broad meaning) is deep in the graph, thus its
preservation is important when considering time-travel. And because TeX
packages relies on Subversion, it raises some questions – for the
interesting reader, see [1].
Here, I would like to open a discussion about the way we are packaging
TeX, quoting Nicolas from [2]:
There are two approaches going on here. `simple-texlive-package' tries
to provide a tessellation of the full texlive, i.e., if you install
(assuming they are defined in Guix) every standalone texlive package,
you will get the exact full texlive distribution, whereas
`texlive-ref' + `texlive-build-system' tries to generate a minimal (a
bit too minimal considering missing documentation) working system.
I think the old way is error prone.
So, do we (not only the two of us, obviously) agree on the
`simple-texlive-package' approach? If so, what should we do about
"source"?
2: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/62570#10
Other said, any objection to go from this pattern:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public texlive-foo
(package
(name "texlive-foo")
(version (number->string %texlive-revision))
(source (origin
(method svn-multi-fetch)
(uri (svn-multi-reference
(url (string-append "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/"
%texlive-tag "/Master/texmf-dist"))
(locations '("/metafont/"
"/fonts/source/public/modes/"))
(revision %texlive-revision)))
(file-name (string-append name "-" version "-checkout"))
(sha256
(base32
"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
`(#:tests? #f ; no test target
#:phases
[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
to this pattern:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public texlive-foo
(package
(inherit (simple-texlive-package
"texlive-foo"
(list "/tex/generic/foo")
(base32
"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
#:trivial? #t))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It is about ~35 packages, if I count correctly.
WDYT?
Cheers,
simon
1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43442#20
