Hello SL+TeX Users,


For the needs of my own network I've developed a Python script called
"tl2rpm" which aims to automatically pull a TeXLive package from the
CTAN site and build the relevant package for SL. It is based on a C
program from Jindrich Novy from 2011. It can build one package or a
set of packages in a row. This script is suited to provide supplemental
TeXLive packages, not the ones supplied by SL (and no "collection"
meta-package either). Packages built in this fashion can subsequently
put into an additional repository.

The archive comes with a small readme.

Hope this helps.


Have a nice day.


On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 19:31 -0500, Steve Gaarder wrote:
> Here's what I'm working on to provide a full complement of TeX goodies on 
> SL7:
> 
> I installed the latest TeXlive in a network directory accessible to all my 
> SL7 machines.  I am working on creating an RPM that will install symlinks 
> to all the relevant commands etc, and that RPM's spec file will have a 
> "provides" for everything that the upstream Texlive package provides.  In 
> that way I should be able to install RPMs that depend on TeX (e.g. kile) 
> without triggering an install of the upstream packages.  Any feedback on 
> this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Steve Gaarder
> System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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