On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 13:16 -0300, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: > 2013/8/6 Simone Caronni <negativo17@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On 6 August 2013 17:38, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Package owner Jindrich Novy is no longer in Red Hat so I am not sure how > >> quickly it may get fixed. > > > > > > I really hope the next mantainer can manage a 14 mb spec file :) > > In Mandriva I did a work very similar to current Fedora texlive, but I did > create almost 3k packages so that could update only was really required; > it should be possible to live with around 1.6k packages, but I preferred > to let upstream handle dependencies, and match 1 to 1 upstream > packages (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive). But, > I am still to start updating it again, now in OpenMandriva, was just left > in a stable state as of like 6 months ago... > > But something like that would not be viable in Fedora, if needing a > review request and approval for every small package... The single SRPM was sold as a *feature* when 2012 was added: "The centralized packaging (i.e. everything is generated and built form single SRPM) also allows simpler maintenance than having several thousands separate TeX packages." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive When I had occasion to look at how texlive is built a few months back it struck me as the most hideous packaging thing I've ever come across, but that's just MHO. In case anyone isn't aware: you're not even supposed to manage the 14MB spec file, you are supposed to manage the C code and ersatz build system which *generates* the 14MB spec file. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/tl2rpm.c - I have to admit, when I was trying to fix a bug, I could never get to the point of getting that to compile and spit out the .spec file at all. I think you're supposed to run http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/b_one_srpm , but it failed in weird ways, for me. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
