On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:51:24PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > Am Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 07:09:46PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > > > This looks a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75893 . > > > I should test with your fix on the tex-team branch. > > I would indeed appreciate some feedback! > > as mentioned in the issue, your fix appears to work very well. > > I have just pushed the 2025 update to the monolithic texlive. > This is the first time that the temxf tarball is bigger than 4GB > (the previous one was already bigger than 4*10^9, but still smaller > than 4*2^30). Unless I have made a mistake, I think this has had some > incidence: As usual, I had done a "guix download" from a local file, > but "guix shell -D texlive" has still downloaded the tarball again. > I wonder if there is a bug somewhere in the Guix code for files bigger > than 4GB. And I also wonder what will happen on 32 bit systems...
Will probably run into something like this: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65714 The last time I looked at the built monolithic texlive I saw there were almost 2GB of PDFs and other files which could be removed or moved to another output. It might be worth checking that out here too. > So maybe once the fix for issue 75893 is pushed and the modular texlive > updated to version 2025, it will finally be time to retire the > monolithic package. > > Well, I do not know how complicated it will be to update the modular > texlive, with package additions, maybe removals, and updates of the > collections and schemes. How do you keep track of the changes between > one version and another one? And does it make sense to follow the yearly > release schedule? Texlive has a Mastodon account, and they regularly > post updates of single packages. > > Andreas > > -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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