Hi,
Are there any recommendations regarding TeTeX packages?
In particular I have a few doubts/questions regarding:
* license
Question:
Is the "LaTeX Project Public License" an approved license? Note:
The rpmlint emits the following warning regarding the license
...
W: tetex-xcolor invalid-license LaTeX Project Public License* name conventions for tetex related macros
- texmf base directory
- package base directory
- package documentation base directory (texdoc related)
- texhash program (or mktexlsr) Example:
%define _texmf %{_datadir}/texmf
%define __texhash %{_bindir}/texhash %define texpkg xcolor
%define texpkgdir %{_texmf}/tex/latex/%{texpkg}
%define texpkgdoc %{_texmf}/doc/latex/%{texpkg}
* installation scripts (texhash vs mktexlsr)
Problem:
the texhash file is owned by different packages$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/texhash
FC1: tetex-2.0.2-8
FC3: tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3 Solution:
Use the file as a requirement ----------
...
Requires(post): %{__texhash}
Requires(postun): %{__texhash}
...
%post
%{__texhash} %{_texmf} >/dev/null 2>&1 || : %postun
%{__texhash} %{_texmf} >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
...
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* installation of package documentation in order for it to be found by the texdoc program
Problem:
- the texdoc program only searches for documentation
files under the directory/usr/share/texmf/doc/
- I believe the tetex package documentation should be
installed in directories like/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/"package_name"
but /usr/share/texmf/doc is owned by tetex-doc which
is a rather big package (50MB+) to be a requirement.
Is it ok for tetex-* packages owning this directory?
I am packaging the latex Beamer presentation class and its two dependencies (xcolor and pgf). I have looked at several tetex-* packages (fedora us/extras) and almost everyone of them seems to be doing different thing. It would be nice to have a specfile template.
Comments/suggestions are welcome, jpo
References: * The Beamer presentation class http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
* The Xcolor dependency http://www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html
* Two of my tetex specfiles http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-xcolor.spec http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-xcolor-2.00-1.src.rpm http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-pgf.spec http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-pgf-0.65-1.src.rpm
PS - I forgot to mention that I am not a TeX/LaTeX expert.
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