Hi, We appear to be cross posting here guys. I don't know how it is in the TeX community, but some people get very upset by this. Is this allowed?
Surprise: This has already been done. Linux does it, OpenBSD does it. Again: Study the OpenBSD port.
Yes, I did have to split it down, so that the minimal "tetex like" distribution could go on the OpenBSD cdrom. There is a python script which can help split TL down and also a large document describing how TeXLive can be ported to OpenBSD, which I wrote because I knew the other BSD's could benefit from my findings. Also a company has sponsored the OpenBSD port and I have some more recent sparc64 hardware on it's way, meaning that I should be able to test some more recent TL snapshots on sparc64 ready for the 2008 release, hopefully minimising portlag. Unfortunately I am stuck in a rut with tl2007. An annoying bug regarding updmap-sys creating dvi maps instead of pdftex maps when TEXMFSYSVAR is not merged with TEXMFMAIN. If anyone on either lists knows how this could happen or is willing to help look into it, pease drop me a mail (I can make qemu images of an OpenBSD dev snapshot with these symptoms). I have a patch to try, but I don't think it is related, so I think I am stuck. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett