Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > > in texlive, there are lots of scripts to be installed in share; thus, > > the patch-shebang phase does not catch them. > Do you know why it doesn’t catch them? The ‘patch-source-shebangs’ > phase patches all the files found under “.”, recursively.
I am not speaking about patch-source-shebangs, but patch-shebangs. Texlive consists of three source packages. The first one contains the source for the binaries, the other two contain files to be installed under "share". I unpack these after the installation procedure and copy them to "share". But if patch-source-shebangs works recursively, I should maybe unpack everything first and let it do its magic. I will give it a try. In any case, I have a working texlive! It contains over 100000 files (that are symlinked from the user profile...) and takes over 3GB, but it works! Actually, I think one does not need to symlink the files from the user profile; tex has its own way of finding files via the binary "kpsewhich" (linked from the user profile), which points directly to the nix store: $ kpsewhich article.sty /nix/store/2cc4xyivn5f52gywl5mnz6fi90bj24xh-texlive-2012/share/texmf- dist/tex/latex/base/article.sty So maybe by splitting into two or three packages, one could hide the data in the nix store. I will think about it. Andreas
