Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#25579 closed defect (fixed)

teTeX is dead, replace with texlive?

Reported by: drkp (Dan Ports) Owned by: gwright@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Port: teTeX

Description

teTeX hasn't been supported for years and TeX Live is the recommended replacement. Any reason we shouldn't change the port to be replaced_by texlive? (after making sure that tetex->texlive updates work cleanly, of course)

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Actually, tetex doesn't even build anymore -- its post-activate script fails when running fmtutil. It looks like the latex sources check the system clock and refuse to build when the sources are more than 5 years old.

I think upgrading tetex to texlive works smoothly if we add tetex to the list of ports to deactivate in texlive-common's pre-activate hook (along with the old texlive_base, etc), and set replaced_by texlive on tetex, but I'm still testing it...

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Removed teTeX in r75080 after allowing texlive-common to deactivate it in r75079.

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