TeX Live 2009 for Fedora

[Jindrich Novy]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2009/8/20 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com>:
> > 2009/8/20 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >> Maybe a good idea is to start directly with TeX Live 2009 in Fedora
> >> because TL 2008 has different package set and TL 2009 contains newest
> >> packages and will likely be released this year. And before that we can
> >> help with testing :)
> >
> > One more issue: some packages (like R, for example) still depend on
> > "tetex-latex", which I guess used to be a virtual provide of texlive
> > but is now gone. What's the plan for dealing with this?
> >
> > Here's the full list of things that require tetex-latex according to repoquery:
> >
> > a2ps-0:4.14-8.fc11.x86_64
> > asymptote-0:1.70-1.fc11.x86_64
> > fig2ps-0:1.3.6-4.fc11.noarch
> > hevea-0:1.10-3.fc11.x86_64
> > HippoDraw-0:1.21.1-9.fc11.x86_64
> > ipe-0:6.0-0.29.pre30.fc11.x86_64
> > jadetex-0:3.13-5.fc11.noarch
> > mediawiki-math-0:1.14.0-45.fc11.x86_64
> > pdfjam-0:1.21-1.fc11.noarch
> > pyscript-0:0.6.1-4.fc11.noarch
> > R-devel-0:2.9.0-2.fc11.x86_64
> > tetex-bytefield-0:1.2a-5.fc11.noarch
> > tetex-dvipost-0:1.1-10.fc11.x86_64
> > tetex-elsevier-0:0.1.20071024-2.fc11.noarch
> > tetex-IEEEtran-0:1.7.1-2.fc11.noarch
> > tetex-perltex-0:1.7-2.fc11.noarch
> > tetex-prosper-0:1.5-5.fc11.noarch
> > texmaker-1:1.8-2.fc11.x86_64
> 
> These packages should be updated to require tex(latex).

Right. These packages need to be updated to reflect the "newly"
introduced virtual provides. The reason of adding virtual provides was
to make packages not dependent on a praticular TeX distribution.

These virtual provides, such as tex(tex), tex(latex) or
tex(xetex) were added at the beginning of the year 2008 so it works at
least for Fedora 9 and higher.

We should file bugs for these packages.

Jindrich

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