texlive 2007, howto? [SOLVED]

krisse · Guru Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Sweden

I've been installing a fresh gentoo, and thought I'd try to move from (the no-longer-being-developed) tetex to texlive.
To be honest, I didn't even try the (masked) 2005 ebuild that's in the tree, but gave 2007 a go; using ebuilds from Bugzilla Bug 168177.

However, I can't get it to work. I've tried different ebuilds -- namely the one in comment 40, and the one in comment 39. Neither worked. (The former ends with an error as explained below, the latter starts downloading 2005 sources, even though I've renamed the (patched) 2005 ebuild to 2007.)

The ebuild from comment 40, after being patched to working SRC_URI:s, ends with an error quite like the one mentioned in comment 21, however I fail to see how to resolve it.

Could anyone write up a short howto build texlive 2007? Maybe it'd even be enough to just point me to a ebuild that works?
Which ebuild to use and how to go about it. (Yes, I've seen the howto for doing it manually -- i e not by portage -- in gentoo-wiki; I'd like to use portage /paludis though.)

V-Li · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 613

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TeX_Live_2007 and a dev is working on TeXLive 2007..but it is such a beast, that it needs a lot of work. So be patient.

Stormkings · Guru Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 352 Location: Europe

Hi,
I got it to work yesterday. I used the last ebuild from the bug report, the three patches and the extract script. I didn't use any ebuild diff only the plain ebuild from Dmitry S. Kulyabov.
It is important to download the livedvd iso and not the install iso as mentioned in the extract script.
Here is what i did:
- copy all files in your portage overlay, patches in ebuild directory/files/2007
- copy texmf-update from texlive 2005 in ebuild directory/files
- extract the necessary bz2 files from iso and copy them into distfiles
- create digest from ebuild
- unmask texlive in package.unmask
- emerge texlive
good luck
dk

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

An alternative as I did get it to work ~2 weeks ago and not the same way than Stormkings.

I put everything in a personal overlay of course. I'll refer to the root of the overlay as $OVERLAY.
So in your overlay create "app-text", "app-text/texlive/", "app-text/texlive/files" and "app-text/texlive/files/2007".
I use this ebuild from the bug report:https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=122965.
I use the three patches from the bug:
1)https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=120479 and save it with the name

krisse · Guru Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Sweden

Thanks for all replies!

I believe that what I had missed, was to copy the patch-files to ${my-overlay}/app-text/texlive/files/2007/!

Thanks for taking the time to write the short howto:s. Emerging as we speak.

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

Master_Of_Disaster · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject:

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

Master_Of_Disaster · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:06 am Post subject:

eh - nevermind...
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labba · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject:

Just wanna say thanks to fb!
You pointed me to the right direction with your post... I missed the texmf-update part

Now everything works