[RFC] Packaging texlive

[Ken Brown]

On 2/28/2012 12:36 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 23:09 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I do have one question about the various texlive-collection-* packages.
>>    Do you have some automated way of getting the TeX Live package lists
>> that are in the .cygport files (TEXLIVE_TEXMF_PKGS, etc.)?  The lists
>> can be gotten from the texlive.tlpdb file, but it doesn't seem obvious
>> to me how to automate this.
>
> Not exactly.  I started with this, after having created all of the
> texlive-collection-* directories:
>
> ========
> date=$(date +%Y%m%d)
> trunk=http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc
>
> for p in texlive-collection-*
> do
>    deps=$(curl -s "${trunk}/${p#texlive-}.tlpsrc?view=co" \
>           | grep ^depend | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v collection- \
>           | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s|\n| |g')
>    echo -e TEXLIVE_TEXMF_PKGS=\"${deps}\"\\ninherit texlive>  $p/$p-$date-1.cygport
> done
>
> sed -i -e 's/TEXMF/DOC/' texlive-collection-documentation-*/*.cygport
> =========
>
> Then I still had to do the following manually:
>
> 1) Scan the .tlpkg files in each collection (once downloaded and
> prepped) for .ARCH depends, and move those from TEXMF_PKGS to ARCH_PKGS.
>
> 2) Primarily in collection-lang*, see which individual packages were
> just placeholders for docs, moving them from TEXMF_PKGS to DOC_PKGS.
>
> 3) Drop any empty hyphenation packages from collection-lang*.
>
> Now that that is all done though, from here on out I think your best bet
> is to track TeX Live subversion:
>
> svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc
>
> then in tlpsrc:
>
> svn diff -r {20120202} | less
>
> (where 20120202 is the date of the last packages) and just translate any
> changes to collection-*.tlpsrc into the existing .cygport files.  Doing
> that just now showed that nine collections already have minor changes.

Thanks, Yaakov.

And thanks once again for the work you did that will make it possible to 
get TeX Live into Cygwin.

Ken