Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I know that OpenSuse also breaks TeXlive into the 2000+ individual packages. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:04:26AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > This does not contradict what I wrote. *Building* the packages differs > > from just copying the generated files to their expected locations. I > > doubt Nix actually generates all these files from

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says >> should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite >> another to generate them all from their respective sources. > > Nix separates them all, it provid

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-21 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says > should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite > another to generate them all from their respective sources. Nix separates them all, it provides the 2000+ packages. -- Pierre Nei

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> I’m afraid the texlive importer will have much less of an impact than >> we’d all wish. > > Hmm... it seems to work for Nix though. Am I mistaken? It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says should be installed.

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Jelle Licht writes: >> >>> I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have >>> is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged. >> […] >>> Thoughts? >> >> We should update texlive. The latest tagged re

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jelle Licht writes: > I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have > is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged. […] > Thoughts? We should update texlive. The latest tagged release according to https://tug.org/svn/texlive/tags/ is “texlive-2019.3”.