Request to review: print/texlive-install

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 05/27/2012 08:14 PM, 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.
>
> Thanks, Stephen
>

The attachment was cleaned off - you can get the shar file for the 
proposed port here:

http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/texlive-install.sh