Bug 15934

Summary:	texlive-texmf pulls in texlive-dist
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Marc Krämer <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula, bruno, fundawang, joequant, mageia, mageia, marja11, n54, pmdenielou, pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	texlive-texmf	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2015-05-14 14:13:14 CEST

Description of problem: In the compilation of the kernel xmlto (which requires xmltex) is required. These both have dependencies on texlive rather than on tetex, which is the current TeX distribution shipped with Mageia. This means that in order to compile the kernel, the huge dependency of texlive must be installed, duplicating (and clashing with?) the already installed tetex. 
xmlto and xmltex should have their depency changed (if possible ) to use either tetex or texlive instead of requiring both.

(Note -- I have not yet run into places where tetex and texlive clash-- since both are installed-- but can imagine it to happen. That would be not nice, since I use tex extensively to write papers in Physics)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):xmltex-0020625-6.mga5

How reproducible:Always


Steps to Reproduce: Compile kernel with tetex installed. 
It will ask for xmlto which asks for texlive, not tetex.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2015-05-14 15:58:45 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-05-14 16:05:58 CEST

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/tetex/ is dead

But our texlive 
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/texlive/current/SPECS/texlive.spec?revision=822028&view=markup

provides tetex, look for the line:

       Provides: tetex = %{version}-%{release} 


However, looking at the spec of xmlto
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/xmlto/current/SPECS/xmlto.spec?revision=749974&view=markup
I see that xmlto requires texlive-texmf

texlive-texmf is a huge package, iinm

I do not have a clue whether that dependency is really needed.
At first sight, the Fedora spec doesn't seem to have it
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xmlto.git/tree/xmlto.spec

CC'ing the only two committers of xmlto, even if both are MIA, and malo, who did a lot of work on texlive-texmf and is texlive maintainer

CC: (none) => fundawang, marja11, n54, pmdenielou
Summary: xmltex and xmlto require texlive while the tex distribution has been changed to tetex => xmlto requires texlive-texmf, but Fedora doesn't seem to do that

Comment 2 David Walser 2015-05-14 18:18:35 CEST

texlive-texmf is 11k, which is very small.  The huge one that shouldn't be pulled in as a BR ever (but is sometimes) is texlive-dist.  Yes our texlive needs some more work.  This particular bug is INVALID though.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 3 w unruh 2015-05-14 19:12:52 CEST

The kernel compilations demands xmlto which demands texlive-texmf ( which I agree is small) and xmltex, xmltex demands texlive ( which is 27MB compressed). I am not sure what pulled in texlive-dist.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2015-05-14 19:21:43 CEST

(In reply to w unruh from comment #3)
> The kernel compilations demands xmlto which demands texlive-texmf ( which I
> agree is small) and xmltex, xmltex demands texlive ( which is 27MB
> compressed). I am not sure what pulled in texlive-dist.

When I replied in this report, I had tried installing texlive-texmf. Of course I didn't have a bunch of dependencies, but with the dependencies it needed over 1GB disk space :

[root@Mga5RC_EFI marja]# LC_ALL=C urpmi texlive-texmf
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
  Package                        Version      Release       Arch    
(medium "Core Release (BlueHD1)")
  lib64freetype2                 1.3.1        45.mga5       x86_64  
  lib64ptexenc1                  20130530     20.mga5       x86_64  
  lib64zziplib0                  0.13.62      5.mga5        x86_64  
  perl-Devel-Leak                0.30.0       3.mga5        x86_64  
  perl-Font-AFM                  1.200.0      5.mga5        noarch  
  perl-HTML-Form                 6.30.0       5.mga5        noarch  
  perl-HTML-Format               2.110.0      3.mga5        noarch  
  perl-HTML-Tree                 5.30.0       10.mga5       noarch  
  perl-HTTP-Server-Simple        0.440.0      5.mga5        noarch  
  perl-Sub-Uplevel               0.240.0      6.mga5        noarch  
  perl-Test-Warn                 0.300.0      3.mga5        x86_64  
  perl-Tk                        804.32.0     6.mga5        x86_64  
  perl-WWW-Mechanize             1.730.0      5.mga5        noarch  
  perl-XML-XPath                 1.130.0      6.mga5        noarch  
  texlive                        20130530     20.mga5       x86_64  
  texlive-collection-basic       20130530     10.mga5       noarch  
  texlive-dist                   20130530     10.mga5       noarch  
  texlive-texmf                  20130530     10.mga5       noarch  
1.1GB of additional disk space will be used.
587MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 18 packages? (Y/n) n
[root@Mga5RC_EFI marja]#

Comment 5 w unruh 2015-05-14 23:27:37 CEST

rpm -qR texlive-texmf
....
texlive
texlive-collection-basic = 20130530-10.mga5
texlive-dist = 20130530-10.mga5

So yes, all 1GB gets pulled in by the dependence of the kernel on xmlto

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID => (none)

Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 15:43:40 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2016-10-21 11:21:56 CEST

(In reply to w unruh from comment #5)
> rpm -qR texlive-texmf
> ....
> texlive
> texlive-collection-basic = 20130530-10.mga5
> texlive-dist = 20130530-10.mga5
> 
> So yes, all 1GB gets pulled in by the dependence of the kernel on xmlto

changing the summary of this bug report

the current cauldron texlive-texmf spec does indeed have:
 
60 	Requires:       texlive
61 	Requires:       texlive-collection-basic = %{version}-%{release}
62 	Requires:       texlive-dist = %{version}-%{release}

(See http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/texlive-texmf/current/SPECS/texlive-texmf.spec?revision=1062816&view=markup )

I don't think this is a junior job, though; touching texlive* is opening up a can of worms, so removing the Junior_job keyword.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: xmltex, xmlto => texlive-texmf
Keywords: Junior_job => (none)
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, bruno, joequant, mageia, pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Summary: xmlto requires texlive-texmf, but Fedora doesn't seem to do that => texlive-texmf pulls in texlive-dist

Marc Krämer 2017-11-23 13:11:36 CET

Assignee: pkg-bugs => mageia
CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 7 Marc Krämer 2020-01-07 12:10:00 CET

fixed in mga7

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED