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... 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
