TODO Contents 0. 2009 1. Package updates a. add more packages b. fix ctan2tds and friends d. outstanding package updates 2. Source updates 3. Infrastructure and installer 4. random stuff 0. Things that have to hang fire until 2009 =========================================== - see tlpkg/etc/2009.* - create collection-langlithuanian for lithuanian + hyphen-lithuanian. - move tlmgr to texlive.infra so bin-texlive doesn't have to be critical. - move texlive.infra doc files to docpattern. - install rework-AddFormat-lines.patch and get rid of texmf/fmtutil. - rename 00texlive-installation.config to 00texlive.installation. - change V to 4 in dvipdfm/config (if we don't replace with dvipdfmx). 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. beebe needs tons of work eulervm vs. euler vs. new euler ... no eulervm.pdf 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 r_und_s plain files should be in tex/plain, but does it matter? thaifonts - was constructed by hand by extracting files from thailatex/fonts on ctan. it would be better to install all of thailatex. ethiop madness: combines ps-type1/ethiop and other packages. pkfix madness: copy in texmf/scripts/pkfix, but no autoupdate there - included in bin-dvips.tpm - windows .bat version? some magical .exe - ctan location is support/pkfix 1e. tlpsrc2tlpdb conversion --------------------------- maybe 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 our bin-* junk.) Perhaps make new autopattern for context 3rd-party packages: texmf-dist/tex/context/third/% etc. 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. Infrastructure and installer =============================== - _install_package in TLMedia and install_package in TLUtils appear to be doing basically the same job. This is bad. - tlpobj vs actual files vs other packages installation, aka safer^2 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. - use Net::ftp/http and keep connection open during download so not to open a new connection for all the time... - extend revisions (Master/tlpkg/etc/generalize-revisions.diff) (implemented and working) we want: NNN[.RRR] - 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) - multiple sources, see tlpkg/doc/multi-support.txt - (Master/tlpkg/etc/installed_avail_archs.diff) for rational see the patch, but it should not be used. - 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. - fix the included "include schemes" patch to have the correct default path components, it seems that per default 2008 is missing. - add support for post{inst,rm} actions defined in the .tlpsrc files: The idea is to give a subroutine *body* like /----- some-package.tlpsrc ----------- |name some-package |... |postrm | my ($texdir) = @_; | if (win32()) { | remove_menu_shortcut($mainmenu, 'DVIOUT Dvi Viewer'); | } |... \------------------------------------- and then call it in TLPostActions.pm in the following way: my $fun = "sub _temp_postrm_$package { " . $tlpobj->postrm . "};"; eval $fun; # that defines the _temp_postrm_$package function &{_temp_postrm_$package}($texdir, $texdirw); undef &{_temp_postrm_$package}; tlmgr/tlmgr2 MAYBE TODO (needs discussion) - save the remote texlive.tlpdb and its md5-hash, and before downloading check only for the md5-hash of the remote tlpdb, and re-download only if necessary implementation ideas: . save the tlpdb in ROOT/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb. where is md5hash of the location argument this way more than one location texlive.tlpdb can be saved . if tlmgr makes something which needs the remote database it tries to get the md5hash of the remote database (.../texlive.tlpdb.md5) -> if this does not work, assume that we are offline (tell the user) then use the local copy of the database -> if that worked, check the md5sum with the md5sum of the local copy of the remote tlpdb -> if they are equal continue with that -> if they are unequal try to download the new one - ordering or collections removal (see below for details) - (?) removal does not remove created format files from TEXMFSYSVAR - after install/update show the number of bytes transfered (email Rolf Niepraschk) - move the remove_package function into TLPDB.pm, so that the remove_package from TLPDB actually removes the files, too. Maybe some better names are necessary. Maybe not a good idea ... not sure. 4. 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 pdfjam rewrite updmap/fmtutil, texconfig . in perl . 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 infra: scheme-minimal is not minimal. Neither is collection-basic. It ends up installing core latex due to dependencies. repo: 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: texlive-en.tex: Explain how (where) to customize texmf.cnf. 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 ?