Re: EL8 pandoc PDF support

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:22 AM Leon Fauster <leonfauster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 17.04.20 um 17:00 schrieb Troy Dawson:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:07 AM Leon Fauster <leonfauster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am unsure if this is something for RHEL8 or EPEL8:
> >>
> >> The usage in EL8 of
> >>
> >> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex
> >> pandoc --pdf-engine=lualatex
> >>
> >> is broken.
> >>
> >> Because EL8 doesn't provide texlive-ucharcat-%{VERSION}.rpm
> >>
> >> I already opened a ticket here:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1820194
> >>
> > Not much we can do about pandoc, because it is in RHEL8.
> >
> > texlive-* packages ... sorry ... scary nightmare after looking at the
> > spec file for that.
> >
> > Technically, I believe we could have some type of epel-only texlive-*
> > package(s) as long as the source rpm isn't the same name as texlive.
> > But trust me when I say, I won't touch that with a 10 foot pole.  I
> > will run screaming if it's even in the same building as me.
> > But if others want to try, as long as things don't conflict.  I know
> > there are many texlive-* packages not in RHEL8.
> >
>
> My understanding is that such EPEL8 packages are build outside of
> texlive-base-%VERSION.src.rpm or texlive-%VERSION.src.rpm source
> packages, for EPEL8 its an texlive-extension package. Than Ngo has
> build the initial EPEL8 src.rpm package [1]. Maybe this is less a
> nightmare.
>
> Fedora:
> rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}|%{SOURCERPM}|%{VENDOR}\n' texlive-lacheck
> texlive-ucharcat
> texlive-lacheck|texlive-base-20190410-8.fc31.src.rpm|Fedora Project
> texlive-ucharcat|texlive-2019-19.fc31.src.rpm|Fedora Project
>
> RHEL8
> rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}|%{SOURCERPM}|%{VENDOR}\n' texlive-lacheck
> texlive-lacheck|texlive-extension-20180414-2.el8.src.rpm|Fedora Project
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785439
>

Thank you Than.
You are the slayer of my nightmares. :)

As it says in that bugzilla.
"there's texlive-extension component in bugzilla, if you want to make
requests like above, please open the bug in texlive-extension and add
your requests there."

And thank you Leon for pointing that out.  I won't be so scared of
questions like these anymore. :)

Troy
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