On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:22:12PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I use for my day to day work teTeX, but I run more and more into > several limitations due to the fact, teTeX isn't any more (and > regretably) maintained/developed by Th. Esser (that is what I know).
Upstream teTeX has indeed been deprecated in favor of TeXLive. > Well, TeXlive is now in the ports tree, but I had recently on a server, > on which I tried to migrate, massive problems with the most recent > CURRENT, where gcc is completely gone (luckily) and converters/iconv > has been removed. I can not clearly say what causes the problems, since > there seem to be remains of teTeX in the system, but they are needed > for some essential facilities and I do not dare ripping them off. Was your machine updated from 9.x to CURRENT? In that case you should really remove _all_ ports and re-install them. That is the only way to get rid of old junk when switching to a new major version. > Before I start time consuming experiments, I'd like to ask whether > there is a smooth way of migration. And for that, please enlighten me > how I can extract those ports installed and needed by teTeX (a kind of > port-traceback of required ports) and delete them, as far as they do > not share common "being required by xxx port", too. Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of duplication of effort). I installed TeXLive using its own installer long before it was present in the ports tree. Since TeXLive is very complete and self-contained, I don't have other ports that depend on TeX. I am certain that TeXLive has pre-built binaries for FreeBSD 9, but I don't know about CURRENT. To see which ports require (parts of) teTeX, use `pkg_info -Rx tetex` Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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