Hi, Mary Ellen. In order to install and get biber working with Fedora TeX Live, do we have to download everything from both noarch and x86_64 directories and install everything?
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 14:41:22 Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > Hello all, > > I did a quick look around and it didn't look like anyone had yet packaged > biber for Fedora. (This is the replacement for the "bibtex" binary that you > use if you want to use the full power of biblatex.) And from what I can > tell, the version that's now included in texlive is only a binary (because > of the large number of perl dependencies), so this couldn't be built as > part of the texlive monster SRPM. > - http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2012-February/000430.html > - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584063 > > So I did a bit of hacking with cpanspec and created F17 (x86_64) packages > of biber and all of its perl dependencies that aren't yet in Fedora. The > files are all here: > - http://mef.fedorapeople.org/biber/ > I still had to create packages for 11 perl modules that aren't yet in > Fedora, but cpanspec made that pretty much automatic so it wasn't too bad. > I didn't bother creating the standalone binary, so this package in fact > depends on a lot of perl libraries. > > I don't have any real interest in submitting all of these packages for > review, as I'm not really a perl hacker (and I got enough of dependency > packaging while getting the dependencies of jabref packaged), but if anyone > feels like running with the packages, feel free. > > Hopefully I've not duplicated any effort, and this proves useful, > > MEF > > -- Rudi Gaelzer Institute of Physics Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741 _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
