Re: Fedora and mpost

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 05/10/13 17:24, David Kastrup wrote:
>> That's not a "workaround" since your fonts would all be broken.  Maybe
>> install TeXlive2013 to a local tree and update to the newest version
>> using tlmgr?
>
> Currently trying to get it to set up a local texmf tree -- running any
> tlmgr command, e.g. tlmgr init-usertree or tlmgr update --list,
> results in the following error (I'm running on Ubuntu 13.10):
>
>     (running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
>     cannot setup TLPDB in /home/joseph/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 5308.
>
> ... any suggestions?  Googling around isn't proving much help other
> than to find that it was a "known issue" earlier this year. :-(
>
> tlmgr --version gives:
>
>     tlmgr revision 31259 (2013-07-22 00:07:38 +0200)
>     tlmgr using installation: /usr/share/texlive
>     TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2013

Interesting.

From
<URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/1220653>:



    The Debian unstable changelog lists as additional changes over the Saucy 
version (among others):

    texlive-bin (2013.20130722.31261-1) unstable; urgency=low

      * allow for different origin in make-orig-tar
      * Imported Upstream version 2013.20130722.31261
        - fix for crash of luatex on x32 archs in certain cases
        - update metapost to 1.803
      * ship new pmpost patch for 1.803
      * bump standards version, no changes necessary

     -- Norbert Preining <address@hidden> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:39:43 +0900

    This would appear to be the relevant change regarding Metapost.

So why isn't the Metapost 1.803 if tlmgr is 0733.31261 ?

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/tlmgr
texlive-base: /usr/bin/tlmgr
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/mpost
texlive-binaries: /usr/bin/mpost

Oh wow.  Different package.  And indeed

apt-get changelog texlive-base starts with

texlive-base (2013.20130722-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream checkout
  * conflict with texlive common so that it gets removed (Closes: #710789)
  * add Polish debconf translation, thanks to Michał Kułach
    (Closes: #711235)
  * update tlmgr (and with new upstream also TLUtils.pm) to support
    map files in user mode

 -- Norbert Preining <address@hidden>  Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:35:16 +0900

While

apt-get changelog texlive-binaries has

texlive-bin (2013.20130529.30792-1build2) saucy; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild for new poppler ABIs

 -- Iain Lane <address@hidden>  Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:02:46 +0000


Unfortunately, nobody seems to be interested in

<URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/1220653>

-- 
David Kastrup