>> >> 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. I would be hoping with the maintainers departure from Red Hat he might have handed over both the package and the knowledge to one of his team members... Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
