Re: Building tex packages
Hi Norbert,
Thank you for your concise reply I have taken your advice and used the
sources from debian. I think line 199 in the readme, should read perl
tpm2deb-source.pl make-deb-source not perl tpm2deb.pl make-deb-source .
If you are interested a ppa is a personal package archive is an apt
repository hosted on Launchpad.
Thank you very much for all your work in packaging texlive.
Luke Jennings
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:55 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> On Do, 29 Apr 2010, Luke-Jennings wrote:
> > few things. How ever not all our users are using lucid, therefore I have
> > been asked to put it all in a ppa. I have spent a few days trying to
>
> Whatever a ppa might be.
>
> > package texlive with not much luck. The readme is very extensive but
> > appears to talk about a file that doesn't exists.
>
> Which one?
>
> > make all
>
> Don't run blindly make, I actually *never* use make nowadays.
>
> > perl tpm2deb-source.pl make-deb-source
> > --oldsource=/media/Back-Up/tmp/texlive2009/trunk/src
> > --master=/media/Back-Up/tmp/texlive-2009.0/Master texlive-base
> > texlive-doc texlive-lang texlive-extra \
> > 2>&1 | tee texlive.sourcebuild.log
> > Cannot find texworks.i386-linux!
> > Cannot find xecyr.i386-linux!
> > Please create a .orig.tar.gz first!
>
> Read what is written there ... it tells you what you should do!!!
> You need to create an .orig.tar.gz first.
>
> BTW, why don't you start from the packages that there are in Debian
> already of TL2009?
>
> You have to first get the .orig.tar.gz files, either from the Debian
> repository, or you build it yourself, but if you keep the same
> upstream version then it would be good from all sides if you use the
> same upstream sources, otherwise the Ubuntu equivalent of dak will
> cry out.
>
> I have the feeling that your experience with building any kind of
> packages is quite limited. Please try NOT to start with TeX (Live)
> as the building of it is quite complicated.
>
> The readme you mentioned actually explains how to create a .orig
> file, under point 2, although referring to 2007, which should be fixed.
> But in reality it works if you use the 2009 part.
>
> Well, not completely, since telxive-bin is now a completely separate
> package.
>
> > Is there an irc channel that the team uses?
>
> There is #debian-tex on irc.debian.org but hardly anyone is there, only
> now and then me, since most of the work is done by me.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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