2009/6/11 Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx>: > I'm interested. Migration to texlive was discussed here before. Died after > nobody wanted to try to inspect licences of all the packages, IIRC. Well, it's not so much that (Tom Callaway actually did go through a number of the files packaged). The problem is that the way in which texlive is put together makes it totally miserable from a distribution packaging perspective, essentially dumping a vast ammount of upstream tarballs into one tarball. This in turn makes it a really horrific job from a license auditing point of view. In my opinion, the root of the problem(s) from a distribution packaging POV is that texlive is itself a distribution with its own package format and manager etc. which has no integration with distribution packaging systems. Roughly and broadly speaking this is how things are right now (grossly oversimplified): 1) Texlive amalgamates and consumes vast numbers of upstream packages. 2) These packages are are unpacked and built into a build tree, and texlive folk also add their own modifications and patches to integrate the whole lot into a useable system. This build tree pretty much defines the filesystem layout. 3) the buildtree componenets are distributed as texlive packages using their packaging format. For distributions the buildtree is more or less made available in a couple of big tarballs. For any other software, Fedora would expect to be doing part 2 itself, and this is where the problem lies. What I believe we need to work on is expanding the tool set used for 2 by texlive such that they can be used inside RPM packaging in order to allow us to control packaging ourselves, working from the true upstreams, rather than the tarballs of the texlive sandbox. The trick is to also take advantage of the integration work done by the texlive folks. The problem is, this is an awful lot of work. I have made stabs at starting it, but, well, paid work and sleep are the enemy of Fedora contributions. J. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
