OK, it may be time to move them to stable. But I forgot to fix a big issue in texlive-base. I think it is now fixed in unstable (0.20080816-3). After some testing days/week, I will move them to stable.
Detailed test reports in stable would be greatly appreciated, whether positive or negative feedback. Tomoaki Okayama At Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:08:10 -0600, David R. Morrison wrote: > > The only resolution that I see is to move texlive* and ptex* to stable. Are > they ready? > > -- Dave > > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > > > On 7/9/10 11:58 AM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> At Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:07:03 -0600, > >> David R. Morrison wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> [1] Why the buildworld is building the ptex-base from stable is a whole > >>>> other issue, and I have no idea as to why it's doing this. It does > >>>> build ptex-base/unstable, but likes to build and use anew > >>>> ptex-base/stable in the middle of runs. > >>> > >>> Well, I think I can explain this. The ptex-base in stable has a long > >>> list of Provides: > >>> > >>> Provides:<< > >>> tetex-base, tetex3-base, ptex3-base, mendexk, > >>> context, dvipdfm, epstopdf, pdftex, tetex-macosx, > >>> (%type_raw[-nox] = .) xdvik > >>> << > >>> > >>> whereas the ptex-base in unstable only Provides ptex3-base and mendexk. > >>> > >>> This means that if another package asks for tetex3-base, for example, > >>> then fink has two choices: ptex-base and tetex-base. Since ptex-base is > >>> earlier in the alphabet, the automated script chooses ptex-base. But > >>> since only the stable version Provides tetex3-base, the stable version is > >>> used. > >>> > >>> I do not know why the Provides line in ptex-base was changed. > >>> > >> Thanks for the explanation. The reason for the change of Provides > >> is that ptex-base in unstable becomes a small package, like xetex, > >> whereas ptex-base in stable provides all teTeX + additional pTeX. > >> > >> TeX Live package is very huge. If ptex-base in unstable provides > >> texlive-base, another huge package comes into being there, and > >> we do not like it. So we decided that ptex-base does not provides > >> texlive-base (and tetex-base, too). > >> > >> Anyway: > >> > >> At Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:31:25 -0400, > >> Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > >>> > >>> ... Could you please modify ptex-base in stable to > >>> conflicts/replaces with texlive-base? so that the swapping can take > >>> place gracefully? > >>> > >> Committed. Please check it. > > > > Thanks. This changed the error report. I now get: > > > > **** > > While trying to install: > > ptex-base-3.1.10-1004 > > > > The following inconsistencies found: > > Unsatisfied dependency in ptex-texmf: texlive-base | texlive-nox-base > > **** > > > > This seems to come from ptex-texmf/unstable explicitly Depending: on > > texlive-base. > > > > Hanspeter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-devel mailing list > > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > > Subscription management: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
