[SM-Discuss] TeXLive 2009 in devel-texlive branch

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik ruskie at codemages.net
Tue Nov 10 11:31:20 EST 2009


:2009-11-10T17:10:Finn Haedicke:

Last I checked it already conflicts with them... if not something is
wrong with the conflicts or with the texlive build. It should be using
the system ones not it's own internal ones. If it can.

> Its a warning for a devel-branch ;-)
> 
> I extended PRE_BUILD little more, the symlinks work now and man is not
> overwritten anymore. TeXLive still installs/overwrites some TeX-related
> binaries that are also provided by different spells:
> 
> $ gaze install texlive |grep /usr/bin/ |xargs -n1 gaze from | \
>   grep -v texlive
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/cfftot1
> detex-2.8:/usr/bin/detex
> dvi2tty-5.3.1:/usr/bin/disdvi
> dvi2tty-5.3.1:/usr/bin/dvi2tty
> dvipng-1.12:/usr/bin/dvigif
> dvipdfmx-20090708:/usr/bin/dvipdfmx
> dvipng-1.12:/usr/bin/dvipng
> dvipdfmx-20090708:/usr/bin/ebb
> dvipdfmx-20090708:/usr/bin/extractbb
> lacheck-1.26:/usr/bin/lacheck
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/mmafm
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/mmpfb
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/otfinfo
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/otftotfm
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/t1dotlessj
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/t1lint
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/t1rawafm
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/t1reencode
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/t1testpage
> lcdf-typetools-2.79:/usr/bin/ttftotype42
> 
> Should texlive conflict with these spells or should we remove these
> parts from texlive?
> 
> Finn
> 
> 
> 
> flux wrote:
> > Finn Haedicke (finn_haedicke at gmx.net) wrote [09.11.10 08:20]:
> >> Just a short warning:
> >>
> >> the spell currently overwrites /usr/bin/man and possibly more with
> >> invalid symlinks.
> >>
> > 
> > I'd say that's not a "warning", but a serious "ERROR: FAIL!". ;)
> > 
> > I was actually planning on testing this on my machine later today, but
> > if it overwrites system binaries with symlinks I'll hold off until we
> > can figure out what it's doing. I'm ready to test though. :)
> > 
> > 
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