Re: [Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-11 Thread John Ridgway
Yes, but since then (and I believe since August) TeXLive 2008 has been released, and it seems to be more amenable to adaptation to the Fink world. I was planning on a full package with multiple components, similar to some of the prior discussions. Once I have done an initial build of the

Re: [Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Costabel
John Ridgway wrote: > Friends - > I am thinking about tackling (once more) the idea of adding TeXLive to > Fink (unless someone is already working on it -- I haven't been > reading the posts recently); I am following the mailing lists quite closely, and I haven't seen anyone declaring a firm

Re: [Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread David R. Morrison
A source file which has an unrecognized suffix is simply copied into the build directory by Fink, and not unpacked. Thus, a PatchScript of the form unlzma foo.lzma | tar xf - should work to unpack the source. (Of course, I don't know the actual name of the binary for un-lzma- ing, or its

[Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread John Ridgway
Friends - I am thinking about tackling (once more) the idea of adding TeXLive to Fink (unless someone is already working on it -- I haven't been reading the posts recently); but there is a problem standing in my way. TeXLive is distributed as a .tar.lzma file, and needs lzma to unpack it.