Replace TeTex package by TeX Live

Question

As of May 2006, TeTeX has been abandoned upstream (see http://www.tug.org/tetex). Another project, called TeX Live, which uses most of the scripts developed for teTeX, is its successor. I would suggest to replace TeTex packages in arch by Tex Live.

Answer 1

Ah, so then the quest is too make a PKGBUILD for the newer pdftex and overwrite the teTeX provided one (while waiting for TeX Live to be part of Arch Linux). I wonder though if pacman lets you do that.
Or.. hmm.. I think that the teTeX PKGBUILD could be modified to download the newest pdfTeX and overwrite the old src and then be built as normal. I'll give it a try and see how it goes.
EDIT: Okay, so I managed to break the teTeX build by taking a chance at with files actually need to be copied, obviously it's more advanced than that. Just building the latest pdfTeX is plain easy though, not sure what will happen if you overwrite the files used by (and "owned") teTeX.
I'll post the files incase anyone wants to try, I won't take any responsibility though, haven't tried it myself, but a guess is that if it messes teTeX up you should recover by 'pacman -S tetex' and say yes when it tells you the latest version is already installed. That's just a guess though. I've not tried building it on i686, but I don't think it should complain so I put it in there as well.
PKGBUILD:
pkgname=pdftex
pkgver=1.40.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Create PDF-files from TeX-files"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('glibc')
install=pdftex.install
source=(http://sarovar.org/download.php/1160/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('3e5ce0ff804e0420908b89ae44c69532')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./build.sh
# Overwrite old files
install -D $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/texk/web2c/pdfetex $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/pdfetex
install -D $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/texk/web2c/pdftex $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/pdftex
install -D -m 644 $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/texk/web2c/pdftex.pool $startdir/pkg/usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.pool
install -D $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/texk/web2c/pdftosrc $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/pdftosrc
install -D $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/texk/web2c/ttf2afm $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/ttf2afm
pdftex.install:
# arg 1: the new package version
pre_install() {
/bin/true
# arg 1: the new package version
post_install() {
echo "Regenerating TeX formats"
fmtutil --refresh
/bin/true
# arg 1: the new package version
# arg 2: the old package version
pre_upgrade() {
/bin/true
# arg 1: the new package version
# arg 2: the old package version
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
/bin/true
# arg 1: the old package version
pre_remove() {
/bin/true
# arg 1: the old package version
post_remove() {
/bin/true
op=$1
shift
$op $*
Last edited by [vEX] (2007-04-13 21:39:05)