Re: RFC for updating TEX to 2021

Moin moin

Please ship it, before the tree moves again too much for it to apply.
Marking 10-12 ports as broken is fine.


mfg Tobias

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 18:57, Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been able to port TEX 2021 but there are some failures and caveats which I wanted to discuss with the community. I have checked only the ports that has USE_TEX in their Makefile :
>
> What changed and what are the failures:
> 1. cslatex support has been DEPRECATED upstream
> 2. print/tex-aleph has been removed as upstream has also removed it
> 3. Fails to build
>   - databases/bbdb (Last release was on 2018)
>   - misc/latex-mk (Last release was on 2010)
>   - textproc/dblatex (The location of the required file has changed can be easily patched)
>   - textproc/bibtool (Someone with latex knowledge should be able to fix this)
>   - print/sgf2tex (Last release was on 2001)
>   - print/lgrind (Last release was on 2001)
>   - print/muttprint (Last release was on 2008)
>   - cad/alliance (Last release was on 2019)
>   - math/asymptote (Should be able to fix this later with someone’s help who knows)
> 4. Dependents
>   - print/lilypond{-devel} depends on textproc/dblatex but if we upgrade lilypond it will no longer require dblatex
>
> In case someone want to check the logs they are available here:
> http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=123-tex
> http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=123i386-tex
> http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=130-tex
> http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=MAIN-tex
>
> So my question is whether if we are okay with UPDATING to 2021 while these 10/12 ports are BROKEN/IGNORED? I am looking forward to move forward a bit faster as there are lots of files involved and the files changes every now and then and merging everytime is really painful with this big of a patchset.
>
> Thanks in advance for advices and flames. :D
>
> Kind Regards,
> Moin (bofh)