On 26 January 2015 at 17:42, Chris Schanzle schan...@nist.gov wrote:
On 01/23/2015 07:31 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote:
Here's what I'm working on to provide a full complement of TeX goodies
on SL7:
I installed the latest TeXlive in a network directory accessible to all
my SL7 machines. I am working on creating an RPM that will install
symlinks to all the relevant commands etc, and that RPM's spec file will
have a provides for everything that the upstream Texlive package
provides. In that way I should be able to install RPMs that depend on TeX
(e.g. kile) without triggering an install of the upstream packages. Any
feedback on this?
I'm essentially in your same position. A few of my users I point to my
Fedora box which has 'yum install texlive-scheme-full'.
Where that didn't work well, for two users, I've copied a whole (44
collections out of 45) portable install locally and update it with a cron
job every weekend. I drop to environment files into /etc/profile.d/ so it
appears near the front of their PATH:
== /etc/profile.d/texlive.csh ==
set d=/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux
if ( ${path} !~ *$d* ) then
set path = ( $d $path )
endif
== /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh ==
d=/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux
[ -d $d ] pathmunge $d
unset d
As I have my own local repo of packages, I'm *this close* to just
packaging up that whole install (3.3 GB, texmf-dist/doc is 1.51 GB) into a
single RPM (must be 4.0GB) and update/install that as needed. I do this
for matlab and a few others, just haven't gotten 'round to it yet.
IMHO, it's insane/wasteful/slows down yum for Fedora to have over 2,700
texlive packages installed. And after a glance of yum logs, they've never
updated just a few packages...
You should engage the texlive maintainers then to see how they can better
meet your needs. The issue was that they heard a lot from people who don't
want 4GB of tex. They want 10 mb of TeX for some documents in other builds
and other things. That tends to be the vocal users of TeX as they see TeX
needing to be installed on a buildroot because some Makefile is making a
ps/pdf/dvi file and pulls in TeX to do so.
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