Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-07-19 at 21:48:24 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > we're told that U12.10 will ship with tl2012, but fedora's > > tempting. (unfortunately i don't trust my creaking old brain to > > look after a system that's no longer supported by the department -- > > it's centos or ubuntu here or you're on your own. centos has > > frozen a similarly ancient version of tl.) > > I'm using CentOS at work. AFAIR they switched from teTeX to TL-2007 > last year (CentOs 6). Though this TL version is ancient indeed, I had > the impression that the rest of the distribution is more up-to-date. > Don't know why they decided to provide such a fossil.
:-) > On the other hand I think that an enterprise grade Linux distribution > deserves an enterprise grade TeX Live installation. > > Nothing easier than that. I installed TeX Live on the server and my > colleagues can use it directly without the need to install or update > anything. Unix users have to mount it via NFS and add the bin > directory to PATH, Windows users have to associate \\server\tex , for > example, with a drive letter, and click w32-client.bat . That's all. > > The nice thing is that I can add custom macro packages, Perl or Lua > scripts, the company logo, etc. without the need to tell my colleagues > how to install them. Everything I put on the server is available > instantaneously. ...unless I forget to run texhash, of course. > > I suppose that unfortunately most people aren't aware of this > possibility. or don't have the means to do the job. the best i can do (consistent with policy -- i'm a sysadmin) is to produce a virtual machine with tl2012, to be the answer to bug reports of the form "my latex doesn't have _this_ package" or "my pdftex doesn't do _this_" (surprisingly frequyent). nothing so obvious as allowing people to self-install... i'll be getting that going some time next month, in time for the new academical year. r
