2009/1/29 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>:
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Not necessarily in this case. From a thousand miles up, the process of
> creating texlive upstream basically involves taking packages from ctan
> and assembling them into the texlive tree using various scripts
> (notably ctan2tl and ctan2tds and others) which is then used to create
> the texlive distribution. I've been wondering if it would be possible
> to adapt these scripts to be used during RPM build time to package
> upstream ctan tarballs. More work needed though. An approach like this
> is worth considering though I think. Of course, this applies to
> packages and fonts mainly, not the tex binaries.
And who handles the dozens of review requests? Our review queue is already
flooded!
Well, whatever happens, a review is going to be needed for the
collection RPMs. I wasn't imagining one RPM per ctan package :).