TODO ==== Contents -------- 1. Package updates a. add more packages b. fix ctan2tds and friends d. outstanding package updates 2. Source updates 3. Installer 4. random stuff 1. Package updates ================== Please see http://www.tug.org/texlive/pkgupdate.html. And check/fix multiple files with the same name, especially with different sizes and not under /source/ or /doc/ or /tex4ht/ -- kpse will find one version at random. 1a. add more packages --------------------- as we add new packages, be sure to add them to tlpkg-ctan-check. ultimately, we want to go back and look at all the existing packages and add them too. 1b. fix ctan2tds et al. ----------------------- (Aside from the whole script being a horrible kludge that needs rewriting from scratch.) tlprm does not know how to delete all emptied parent directories. etoolbox.pdf from CTAN is incorrectly guessed by svn to be text, thus the result is corrupted when checked in. So did: svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream \ /home/texlive/karl/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.pdf but of course somewhere in ctan2tl should check for this. And we should check nightly that all pdf files can be read by pdffonts; or maybe on commit. check all die messages for "sorry". wadalab tlpkg-ctan-check must untar the archives in order to have file to compare authorindex the perl file "authorindex" must be moved to source/latex/authorindex latex2e-help-texinfo .info gets removed, but should really be installed under texmf/doc/info. problem is multiple trees and place. same problem with mkjobtexmf.man and thumbpdf.man. right now, we svn revert the texmf files by hand after --place and before commit ... not good. %moreclean rerun every package listed in this hash to be sure changes around 24dec07 haven't broken things. be careful. place should report on any files in the new tree missing from the tlpobj. 1d. outstanding package updates ------------------------------- run tlpkg-ctan-check --check check all mentioned in staw msg on tldev, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:50. magyar: should be included in babel but is lacking a dtx, see http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=babel/4018 If not, should be removed cause duplicates magyar.ldf. abstyles not updated but too old to matter beebe needs tons of work dehyph install as separate package, should be ok, hyph-utf8 uses it eulervm vs. euler vs. new euler ... no eulervm.pdf japanese requires ptex logic/gn-logic14 conflicts with logic font lshort-russian # only zip files on CTAN ltxmisc various packages malayalam 07-11-20 (tlpkginfo does not work on this) CTAN dir language/malayalam malayalam-omega 07-11-20 mathspic # inside pictex later mx NEW 08-01-26 a mexican dialect of spanish plnfss # only a zip file on CTAN psv # ps previewer, install through ctan2tl using /scripts/ ? r_und_s plain files should be in tex/plain, but does it matter? thailatex has some nonfree fonts 1e. tlpsrc2tlpdb conversion --------------------------- should only find package names at the appropriate levels, so that graphics.tlpsrc does not have to include lines like docpattern +!d texmf-dist/doc/latex/tufte-latex/graphics if ask for susy and have Susy, or reverse, complain. In general, the package name field should match the directory. (Except for all our bin-* junk.) 2. Sources updates ================== ncurses should be removed -- only dialog uses it, and can't it use a system curses? already required for texinfo. or maybe dialog is no longer needed at all? 3. Installer/Infrastructure =========================== - safer installation currently we just unpack what is in the tar file, but never check that the contents actually agrees with what is listed in the tlpdb. We not even check that the tlpobj contained in the container agrees with the tlpobj taken from the tlpdb. That allows to ship practically everything in the container, overwritting unrelated files. Also not checked is that unpacking the container does not overwrite files from a different package. - extend revisions (Master/tlpkg/etc/generalize-revisions.diff) we want: [source:]NNN[.RRR] - source specification for listening the origin - NNN as normal revision number - .RRR to provide various upgrades (think of context providing packages with everyday addint +1 to the revision number they could easily overtake upstream texlive) Question: Do we need the source part at all? Isn't it irrelevant? - multi-source support I think all that ideas with pinning etc are overkill, since we will not have that many different sources. I propose that we use only revision numbers NNNN[.RRRR] (without any source specification) and that just the highest package number will be installed. To be done: . add support for more than one depend location:.... lines in the tlpdb . add code to the tlmgr to load all tlpdb from all locations . install just simply the hightest number (needs generalize revision patch) - (Master/tlpkg/etc/installed_avail_archs.diff) currently there is a mess-up wrt to available and installed architectures. We use 00texlive-installation/available_architectures for both the set of installed archs and the set of available archs. That should be better done as follows: 00texlive.config: should contain the available_architectures stuff 00texlive-installation.config: should contain *instead* installed_architectures stuff and tlmgr should check: localtlpdb/00texlive-installation.config/installed_architectures for what archs are actually installed, and remotetlpdb/00texlive.config/available_architectures for what can be installed. In the texlive-svn both variables would be initialized to the same thing, while others that don't want to be necessary also runable as is (some third party distribution of modules) should only need to set 00texlive.config/available_architectures - rewrite the installer to use TLMedia instead of the horrible hacks of TLUtils. - change tl-update-tlnet and tlpkg-by-size to implicitly get the network release directory (tldev, 2008) instead of hardwiring. Then update doc/packages.txt. 5. random stuff =============== lcdf --with-cxx-runtime-hack to get static libs kpse: texmfdbs should not have to exclude non-!! dirs, should be able to go back to just TEXMF. kpathsea should search the disk even if ls-R is present, without !!. (koch 29dec06) see about including asymptote, pdfjam rewrite updmap/fmtutil . in perl (in lua?) . work with multiple updmap.cfg files independently rework the psnfss/fonts/metrics chaos see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433137 (aren't there other more general debian bugs? utopia and fpl aren't the problem.) With the metric files, the problem isn't so much the packaging as the provenance. We do not know where many of them came from, some correspond to nonfree fonts, others are obsolete, etc., etc. And yet, removing any tfm at all will probably break documents and/or packages. frank@kuesterei.ch's msgs to tex-live of 23 Oct 2006 19:19:28, 11 Oct 2006 13:32:20, and related begin to get at the problem. bbold - get type1's from yytex repo, put on CTAN, etc.? infra: texmf/xindy not reported by check-file-coverage though not in tlp's infra: specify defaults for the package types (TLCore/Package/Documentation) in a *.tlpsrc instead of buried in the code, for transparency. infra: consider removing texmf-doc repo: remake with new svn, make special repo backups repo: memman.pdf, etoolbox.pdf, hyperref README.pdf -- svn guesses wrongly that it is text, resulting pdf is junk, pdffonts can't read it for example. original on ctan is fine. 1) check for other broken pdf's. 2) change place to svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream for all *.pdf. 3) report heuristic bug to svn. doc: manifesto, contributors doc: how to add a new tree (e.g., for context) doc: web page on TeX (Live?) compilation doc: utf-8 fails accent chars with texlive-ge tex: implement fancier behavior at prompt file name, see knuth update notes and thread at http://tug.org/mailman/private/tex-implementors/2008/001925.html tex: CTRL-C at "please enter file name" should dtrt tex: --no-mktex=fmt should be supported pdfopen: fixed http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/wp-uploads/mavpdfopensrc.zip dvips: comment line break http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b8ed25cc6153d5c dvips: \special{map: ...} a la \pdfmapline (reinhardk 30dec06) dvips: maybe stuff from dvipsfnt.txt from yy build: --without-omega (and aleph?) doesn't stop omega compilation. build: remove ncurses and make dialog use system version iso: optimize image, http://www.tina-vision.net/tina-knoppix/remastering.html sigh: lm vs. ec, 3jun06/stubner.gz msg announce: slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, prweb.com, prnewswire.com ?