On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:53:43AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 20:56:26 -0500, > Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been trying to use xelatex. I've been grabbing lots of missing files > > from ctan. Why are they missing? > It is now fixed in the F8 TeXLive repository and rawhide, where I added a complete XeTeX styleset since texlive-texmf-2007-16 so xelatex should work fine now. > I think there may be a bug in update scripts when using yum. I haven't > thoughly tested this, but after updates (I think) lots of texlive stuff goes > missing (according to rpm -V). I have used rpm -Uvh --force to put the stuff > back. > I don't keep upgrade paths precisely, because TeXLive hasn't yet occured in any official Fedora release. This allows me to tune the TeXLive subpackaging to almost ideal state for upcoming F9 with a minimal overhead for backporting changes for F8. So if an update fails for some conflict/missing requires, please remove all texlive packages and reinstall them from scratch and it will work. Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
