This sounds like something we could do as a group effort, perhaps even as
a contribution to SL. I have some computing power here that could be used
for the task. I am about to deploy SL7 here and I think it more likely
than not that someone will ask for a TeX feature that is not in the
standard SL7 package.
Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
[email protected]
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 6 January 2015 at 17:33, Anthony Seward <[email protected]> wrote:
After digging through the .spec file, I believe you are
correct. Ugh!. Looks like I’ll have to see how hard it is to
make a TexLive Software Collection from a Fedora version of
TexLive. Double Ugh!!
Standard way of doing this:
0) Get yourself a VM or something you don't mind cooking CPU for a bit. GIve
it a lot of RAM and a lot of diskspace.
1) install fedora-packager from epel
2) download the src.rpm you want to rebuild.
3) put your user in the /etc/group mock group
4) mock -r epel-7-x86_64 rebuild texlive*rpm
wait for it.. if you run out of ram or disk space add more and restart.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
