Hi,

Are there any recommendations regarding TeTeX packages?

In particular I have a few doubts/questions regarding:

* license

Question: Is the "LaTeX Project Public License" an approved license?

Note: The rpmlint emits the following warning regarding the license ... W: tetex-xcolor invalid-license LaTeX Project Public License

* name conventions for tetex related macros

- texmf base directory - package base directory - package documentation base directory (texdoc related) - texhash program (or mktexlsr)

Example: %define _texmf %{_datadir}/texmf %define __texhash %{_bindir}/texhash

%define texpkg xcolor %define texpkgdir %{_texmf}/tex/latex/%{texpkg} %define texpkgdoc %{_texmf}/doc/latex/%{texpkg}

* installation scripts (texhash vs mktexlsr)

Problem: the texhash file is owned by different packages

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/texhash

FC1: tetex-2.0.2-8 FC3: tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3

Solution: Use the file as a requirement

---------- ... Requires(post): %{__texhash} Requires(postun): %{__texhash} ... %post %{__texhash} %{_texmf} >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

%postun %{__texhash} %{_texmf} >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ... ----------

* installation of package documentation in order for it to be found by the texdoc program

Problem: - the texdoc program only searches for documentation files under the directory

/usr/share/texmf/doc/

- I believe the tetex package documentation should be installed in directories like

/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/"package_name"

but /usr/share/texmf/doc is owned by tetex-doc which is a rather big package (50MB+) to be a requirement. Is it ok for tetex-* packages owning this directory?

I am packaging the latex Beamer presentation class and its two dependencies (xcolor and pgf). I have looked at several tetex-* packages (fedora us/extras) and almost everyone of them seems to be doing different thing. It would be nice to have a specfile template.

Comments/suggestions are welcome, jpo

References: * The Beamer presentation class http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

* The Xcolor dependency http://www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html

* Two of my tetex specfiles http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-xcolor.spec http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-xcolor-2.00-1.src.rpm http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-pgf.spec http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/RPMS/tetex-pgf-0.65-1.src.rpm

PS - I forgot to mention that I am not a TeX/LaTeX expert.

-- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@di.uminho.pt * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *