- Giorgos Keramidas [070828 10:37]: On 2007-08-27 14:47, Martin Schr?der wrote:

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2007/8/27, Mojca Miklavec :

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On 8/27/07, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

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I will, but I'm afraid I am not good enough for "porting" it to the FreeBSD ports.

Doesn't something already exist on the link above (I didn't read carefully and I wasn't sure about the FreeBSD/OpenBSD relation)?

OpenBSD has a port in current (it will make 4.3, to be released in 2008-05). FreeBSD clings to tetex. :-{

Maybe with enough support from the Ports team of FreeBSD, we can switch from teTeX to TeXLive? But this is a plan which requires quite a bit of work from experienced TeXhackers, which I am not :-/

As far as I can tell it's the sheer size of TexLive that is keeping it from being ported. I would think it is not trivial to modularize it enough to bring the installed size down. What I am thinking about is building a minimal context port. This should be easier to accomplish since we already have a minimal texmf tree thanks to Hans. All that is needed is a source for the FreeBSD binaries. These could be built out of the TexLive source tree... I'll try to cook something up the next couple of days. Cheers, Olaf

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

2007/8/27, Giorgos Keramidas :

Maybe with enough support from the Ports team of FreeBSD, we can switch from teTeX to TeXLive? But this is a plan which requires quite a bit of work from experienced TeXhackers, which I am not :-/

Have a look at the work Ed did for OpenBSD; this should be esay to adapt for FreeBSD. Search the TeXlive archives. :-) Best Martin