Archlinux: updated BPKGBUILD for luametatex
Hi all, I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/ Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN. The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD. I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Aditya
On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Just curious ... we have this
mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of became bug=feature for practical reasons) i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips? (i actually made it when i played with identifying potential fonts) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Great đź‘Ť thank you again Aditya
Le mer. 15 déc. 2021 à 19:29, Hans Hagen via ntg-context
Hi all,
I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some
On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an
up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Just curious ... we have this
mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of became bug=feature for practical reasons)
i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips?
(i actually made it when i played with identifying potential fonts)
Hans
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On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 7:28 PM CET, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Just curious ... we have this
mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of became bug=feature for practical reasons)
i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips?
Not sure if it's for every package, but should be just "http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. ".zip" in scripts.ctan.details. E.g. from https://ctan.org/json/2.0/pkg/lm: ctan.path = /fonts/lm => zip url = http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lm.zip I think it may be better to get packages from TeX Live. They are already "built" (although this is probably not necessary for packages that ConTeXt is interested in) and split into documentation, sources and runtime files. The TeXLive database: http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb or http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz E.g: name lm category Package revision 58637 shortdesc Latin modern fonts in outline formats relocated 1 longdesc The Latin Modern family of fonts consists of 72 text fonts and [...] docfiles size=657 RELOC/doc/fonts/lm/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.TXT RELOC/doc/fonts/lm/MANIFEST-Latin-Modern.TXT [...] runfiles size=10645 RELOC/fonts/afm/public/lm/lmb10.afm RELOC/fonts/afm/public/lm/lmbo10.afm [...] Then: http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/lm.tar.xz http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/lm.doc.tar.xz Some packages also have "srcfiles" and the source files tar: http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/X.source.tar.xz PS: To be frank I didn't manage to even run the mtx-ctan script, seems like a problem with locating libs-imp-curl.lmt, although util-jsn.lua is fine and is also "require"d. [...] resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'already loaded', name 'util-jsn' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'preload table', name 'util-jsn' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'lua variable format', name 'util-jsn' resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 1: . resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 2: /home/michal/texmf/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 3: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 4: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 5: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 6: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 7: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 8: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 9: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 10: /home/michal/texmf/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 11: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 12: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 13: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 14: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 15: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 16: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 17: 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/home/michal/texmf/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf/tex/context/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/texmf/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/texmf/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | duplicate lua format path: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf/tex/generic/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 26: /home/michal/texmf/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 27: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-project/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 28: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-fonts/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 29: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 30: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-modules/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 31: /home/michal/src/context-mirror/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 32: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | registered lua format path 33: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf/scripts/context/lua/ resolvers | libraries | lua format, checking 33 paths resolvers | resolving | using given filetype 'tex' resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'concatinators', how 'tag', tag 'file' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'util-jsn.lua' using hash 'tex::util-jsn.lua' resolvers | libraries | lua format, identifying 'util-jsn.lua' using format 'tex' resolvers | libraries | lua format, 'util-jsn.lua' found on '/home/michal/src/context-mirror/tex/context/base/mkiv/util-jsn.lua' resolvers | libraries | found, level '1', method 'lua variable format', name 'util-jsn' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'already loaded', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'preload table', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'lua variable format', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | lua format, checking 33 paths resolvers | resolving | using given filetype 'tex' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'libs-imp-curl.lua' using hash 'tex::libs-imp-curl.lua' resolvers | libraries | lua format, identifying 'libs-imp-curl.lua' using format 'tex' resolvers | resolving | using given filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'libs-imp-curl.lua' using hash 'lua::libs-imp-curl.lua' resolvers | libraries | lua format, identifying 'libs-imp-curl.lua' using format 'lua' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'lib variable format', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | registered lib format path 1: . resolvers | libraries | registered lib format path 2: /home/michal/src/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/lib/luametatex/ resolvers | libraries | lib format, checking 2 paths resolvers | resolving | using given filetype 'lib' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'libs-imp-curl.so' using hash 'lib::libs-imp-curl.so' resolvers | libraries | lib format, identifying 'libs-imp-curl.so' using format 'lib' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'lua extra list', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | no extra lua paths defined resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'lib extra list', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | no extra lib paths defined resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'path specification', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 1: /usr/local/share/lua/5.4/?.lua resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 2: /usr/local/share/lua/5.4/?/init.lua resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 3: /usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/?.lua resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 4: /usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/?/init.lua resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 5: ./?.lua resolvers | libraries | using builtin lua path 6: ./?/init.lua resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'cpath specification', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'all in one fallback', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'not loaded', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | unable to locate 'libs-imp-curl' [...] Surely I am missing something or it is because of my weird setup, and I always get lost in the resolvers... Quickly tried Aditya's Arch Linux package and it ends similarly: [...] resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'cpath specification', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'all in one fallback', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | locating, level '1', method 'not loaded', name 'libs-imp-curl' resolvers | libraries | unable to locate 'libs-imp-curl' Michal
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Michal Vlasák via ntg-context wrote:
On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 7:28 PM CET, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Just curious ... we have this
mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of became bug=feature for practical reasons)
i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips?
Not sure if it's for every package, but should be just
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. ".zip"
in scripts.ctan.details.
This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists: http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, it safer to use "http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. "tds.zip" But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the default zip is already TDS compliant). For example: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link. In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic. Aditya
On 15/12/2021 20:32, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have
https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip
which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip
which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, it safer to use
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. "tds.zip"
But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the default zip is already TDS compliant). For example:
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter
has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link.
In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic.
If only we could convince CTAN to have a common structure - this came up recently with Norbert re. supporting TeX Live! (cf. CRAN for example) Joseph
On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 9:32 PM CET, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips?
Not sure if it's for every package, but should be just
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. ".zip"
in scripts.ctan.details.
This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have
https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip
which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip
which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, it safer to use
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. "tds.zip"
But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the default zip is already TDS compliant). For example:
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter
has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link.
In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic.
Oops, sorry, I completely forgot to mention that indeed what I mention corresponds to the download link on the package page, which in general "shouldn't be" in TDS format. Only packages whose authors upload their own TDS zip have these .tds.zip files you found:
From https://www.ctan.org/help/upload-pkg: The CTAN team has decided that packages on the archive shall remain in a browsing-friendly layout, i.e. the best format is to have all the files inside a directory. Very large packages – such as modern font distributions – are improved by a single extra layer of directories.
In parallel to the main directory tree, CTAN offers possibility to provide a TDS-structured ZIP file. Such a file will only be accepted as an addition to your upload, not as a replacement.
This file is not necessary at all for simple packages. Thus it should be omitted for instance for normal LaTeX packages. This file might be required when the package is complex.
Michal Vlasák
On 12/15/2021 11:38 PM, Michal Vlasák via ntg-context wrote:
On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 9:32 PM CET, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Oops, sorry, I completely forgot to mention that indeed what I mention corresponds to the download link on the package page, which in general "shouldn't be" in TDS format. Only packages whose authors upload their own TDS zip have these .tds.zip files you found: makes me wonder ... one could just install the plain and context related tikz files in
texmf-modules/tex/tikz/* read: flatten the lot because i suppose that subdirecories don't really matter Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 12/15/2021 9:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Michal Vlasák via ntg-context wrote:
On Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 7:28 PM CET, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 12/15/2021 6:22 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
I am changing the way modules are installed in the ArchLinux aur package for luametatex.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex/
Earlier, I was just sym-linking to the modules installed by context-minimals-git package (which I also maintain). However, some packages there were out of date (in particular pgf/tikz). The new PKGBUILD installs the modules directly from CTAN.
The following modules are installed by default: filter, vim, visualcounter, pgf, pgfplots, circtuitikz
You can install other modules by adding them in the PKGBUILD.
I am not sure if anyone else actually uses this PKGBUILD to maintain an up-to-date installation of LMTX. If someone does use it, and wishes to add more modules to the default list, I'll be happy to do that. Just curious ... we have this
mtxrun --script ctan --packages --pattern=tikz
which just gives info (at the time i made that the ctan api was bugged as it mixed up xml and json keys, but i'm not sure if that was fixed of became bug=feature for practical reasons)
i never came to a 'download option' because it was ot clear where to download from .. are there zips?
Not sure if it's for every package, but should be just
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. ".zip"
in scripts.ctan.details.
This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at /graphics/pgf/base), we have
https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip
which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip
which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, it safer to use
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/" .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. "tds.zip"
But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the default zip is already TDS compliant). For example:
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter
has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link.
In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic. sure, once you know what/where it's not that much work and I admit that I only downloaded tikz for testing the 'loading bug' and a few fonts during my tex life)
btw, when I fetched tikz a few days ago I could not fetch the zip from the browser because it complained about some security issue but the command line wget worked ok another aspect of additional files is that I like to keep my system uncluttered so e.g when I install fonts we just need the open type files that I then install in texmf-fonts/fonts/data/<author>/* instead of bothering about forther structure (in fact it doesn't really matter much where files end up as long as there is some system behind it) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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