[tex-live] No context in TL2023 source ?

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On 2023/03/21 11:00:32 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On 2023/03/21 15:19:03 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > I'd also be interested in hearing from distro maintainers how they're
> > > planning to handle this.
> > 
> > Not a distro maintainer anymore, but that will be horrible and most
> > probably context will be removed from Debian (but that is not my call).
> 
> I run into the same problem as the rpm spec file generator uses the
> db texlive.tlpdb.xz of current TeXLive 2023 as well as the texlive-20230311-source.tar.xz
> and this leads on building the binaries:
> 
> 
> [ 4699s] Processing files: texlive-context-bin-2023.20230311.svn66562-0.x86_64
> [ 4699s] error: File not found: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/texlive-2023.20230311-0.x86_64/usr/bin/context
> [ 4699s] error: File not found: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/texlive-2023.20230311-0.x86_64/usr/bin/context.lua
> [ 4699s] error: File not found: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/texlive-2023.20230311-0.x86_64/usr/bin/luametatex
> [ 4699s] error: File not found: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/texlive-2023.20230311-0.x86_64/usr/bin/mtxrun
> [ 4699s] error: File not found: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/texlive-2023.20230311-0.x86_64/usr/bin/mtxrun.lua
> 
> if ConTeXt is no included in the source tar ball I wonder why the ConTeXt
> packages are still part of the texlive.tlpdb
> 
> Werner

I wonder how this is supposed to work ... even if I use cmake with 'Unix Makefiles'
I do not see how the resulting binaries will work out of the box

  xzgrep -i ^execute texlive.tlpdb.xz | grep AddFormat | grep -ic luametatex
  0

messages about missing format files as I see are not what most users expect.
And most user are not able/willingly to search in the documentation how to
generate the missing formats.

Werner

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