Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-07 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/06/2011 03:56 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: >> uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm >> statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. >> >> In my view two things could be wrong: >> 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and mayb

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 20:49:20 Walter Cazzola wrote: > Unfortunately some bad written packages (such as R) rely > on the presence of a tex-based rpm this is what my hack solves. The packages are well written, since they depend on latex the rpm package should require the equivalent rpm packag

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2011 03:56 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm > statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. > > In my view two things could be wrong: > 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and maybe something differ when you use > bash > 2. d

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Walter Cazzola
uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. In my view two things could be wrong: 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and maybe something differ when you use bash 2. did you install the rpmdevtools and prepared the rpmbuild di

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:39:00 +0200 (CEST) > Walter Cazzola wrote: > >> Dear Fedora Experts, >> after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te >> and others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec >> for a fake texliv

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-01-26 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 25/01/2011 16:25, Walter Cazzola a écrit : > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, François Patte wrote: > >> BTW why do you want a2ps it is quite obsolete now for it is unable to >> handle utf-8 encodage. > > I'm a long time user of a2ps and I've several scripts

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, François Patte wrote: Get the rpm package of a2ps and install it with rpm -ivh a2ps.xxx.rpm --nodeps And see if a2ps works. uhm, this is a solution but I don't like it for 2 reasons: - in this way I lose the automatic update that yum grants me - a2ps is just one o

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-01-25 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 25/01/2011 11:46, Walter Cazzola a écrit : > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: > >> Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 13:55 +0100, Walter Cazzola a écrit : > >> a solution could be to build an empty RPM that will simply contain a >> "Provid

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, suvayu ali wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: That has been a great idea except for a couple of issues on some *nonrelated" packages. To remove texlive yum forced the remotion of a2ps and R-core (and few other but these are the most important for

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 13:55 +0100, Walter Cazzola a écrit : a solution could be to build an empty RPM that will simply contain a "Provides: texlive > 2007" or something like this to fool Fedora packages requiring a LaTeX distribution. You