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
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 
> 
> On 6 January 2015 at 17:33, Anthony Seward <[log in to unmask]> 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.
> 
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
> 
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