Request to review: print/texlive-install

[Nikola Lečić]

On Sun, 27 May 2012 20:32:14 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> I have written a simple port which is in essence a wrapper around the
> texlive installation script. It also builds (almost) all of the binaries
> from scratch.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Would anyone mind if this port was
> committed?
>
> There are a number of issues. In particular there is no checksum
> calculated for install-tl-unx.tar.gz because I suspect that it changes
> very often.
>
> Also the install-tl-xxxxxxxx script doesn't seem to have a capability to
> be run in batch mode. I hacked a way around this, but it could be easily
> broken if the script were to change in some unexpected way.
>
> But it does build and install texlive in a fairly timely manner. And the
> result can be made into a (large) package using pkg_create.

Stephen, TeX Live 2011 builds fine for me with this port. Just a few
comments:

1. Biber doesn't need compat7x. It works on 7 and above without it.
Moreover, the TeX Live's configure script already takes care of the
FreeBSD version in the FreeBSD way. Please take a look:

 
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/utils/biber/configure?revision=26215&view=markup

lines 3563-3583, or just search for '__FreeBSD_version'. The binaries
distributed with the source work on FreeBSD>=701000 and biber will not
be installed if older FreeBSD is detected.

(I meant that it could be possible to cover FreeBSD-6 with biber
binaries distributed over CTAN. But that's not extremely important for
now.)

2. fontconfig is a run dependency as well, xetex needs it to run.

3. TeX Live ships with its own portable FreeBSD i386/amd64 xz and wget
binaries and install-tl/tlmgr use them. They will not work on FreeBSD<7.
Therefore, it could be possible that you need to add xz and wget as
build/run dependencies on FreeBSD<7 and on architectures other than
i386/amd64, although I haven't checked this.

4. Since the aim of your port is not to create portable binaries, there
is no reason not to build xindy. You can freely add '--enable-xindy
CLISP=/path to the clisp binary/', and lang/clisp as a build dependency.

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