This correspondence has prompted me to write on a topic that has
concerned me for a while.
Our department's main teaching and research computing resource is now
provided by a network of Linux machines, running Red Hat, each of
which has local copies of as much software as possible. We keep them
up to date by using rpms to update the local copies. This means that
they are now running the version of teTeX available in the
tetex-*-1.0.6-11 series of rpms, which are now quite old. Updating
such a large number of machines without the necessary rpms does not
appear to be an option. It would appear that, to keep teTeX reasonably
current, we need to switch to a single, centrally maintained copy. Do
others have the same problems, or any bright ideas to solve them?
Thanks
Graham
