lennivh24--- via aur-general <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello everyone. > > I recently came across a bug in dvisvgm [0] and contacted the developer > about it. He was able to tell me that my issue was already fixed in the > newest upstream version [1]. > > Currently, dvisvgm is installed as a part of extra/texlive-bin. However, > TexLive (and as such the dvisvgm version that is distributed with it) only > gets updated once a year [2][3], so the currently obtainable version of > dvisvgm has this bug until at least April. > > I was wondering how I'd go about submitting a PKGBUILD that installs > a single binary from texlive-bin. > > As far as I know, no texlive package relies on this specific version of > dvisvgm (or any version of it, since it's only an auxiliary binary), > so overwriting the existing version on the system shouldn't be a problem. > > Another issue I faced is that dvisvgm depends on texlive-bin, but also > should overwrite the /usr/bin/dvisvgm that is installed through texlive-bin. > > How would I go about submitting this PKGBUILD? Should I submit it at all? > Thanks in advance > Leonard. > > [0] https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm > [1] https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/issues/150 > [2] https://tug.org/texlive/#:~:text=4apr%3A%20public%20release > [3] https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/issues/150#issuecomment-805955619 Hello, TeXlive as a whole is only updated once a year, but components may get updated earlier on CTAN, and TeXlife follows CTAN. You can try if https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tllocalmgr-git/ works for you. I only know texlive-loacalmanager, which was not working very well for me. tllocalmgr is the successor. It should create a PKGBUILD for you. You should not upload it to AUR as it will install to /usr/local, and by default files under /usr/local/bin will be preferred over such under /usr/bin. Also you can try to file a bugreport for ARCH. Also Arch Linux' texlive packages are updated now and then, not only once a year. Best Regards Stefan
