Bug 178406
| Summary: | subpackage texi2dvi to avoid texinfo requiring tetex | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jens Petersen <petersen> |
| Component: | texinfo | Assignee: | Miloslav Trmač <mitr> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | jose.p.oliveira.oss, qspencer, redhat-bugzilla |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.8-11 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-06-01 14:57:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jens Petersen
2006-01-20 08:18:07 UTC
Unfortunately there's AFAIK no clean way to split a package and make sure both parts are installed after an upgrade. Considering that the "average developer" (I know...) will need tetex at least for docbook-utils/xmlto, I don't think it is worth the trouble. I was just going to file a bug with the same request when I found this. Let me just give an example of where splitting this would help. All of the online help in octave is texinfo formatted and so octave requires makeinfo. This means that to install octave, you must install tetex, which means tetex-fonts as well. The rpms for octave and a few library dependencies are a total of 10-20 MB (I don't remember the total). The rpms for tetex and tetex-fonts are a total of 42 MB, more than twice the size of everything else to be installed. Fair point, let's do it for FC6. Fixed in rawhide texinfo-4.8-11. Thanks for your report. Re-opening bug to request FC-4 and FC-5 package update. The package splitting broke at least one build requirement list of a Fedora Extras package that I maintain. The package in question - asymptote -requires the file texi2dvi to create the main pdf doc file. In order to avoid having different specfiles for the FC-4/FC-5, and devel (FC-6) branches I would like to request an update of the FC-4 and FC-5 texinfo package that would also provide the texinfo-tex package (Provides: texinfo-tex). Thanks in advance, jpo PS - I know I could build require the file /usr/bin/texi2dvi but upstream just warned yesterday that it needs a particular version of the above file to successfully build the pdf file. Changing the package list within a release can break kickstarts or make tested and documented processes invalid. I don't think inconveniencing all our users to make single developer's task somewhat easier is worth it. (In reply to comment #6) > Changing the package list within a release can break kickstarts or make tested > and documented processes invalid. I have not requested the splitting of the FC-4 and FC-5 texinfo package, I only suggested the addition of a provides statement to the FC-4 and FC-5 packages specfiles. AFAICT that will not change the FC-4/FC-5 package list. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying enough attention. Adding a provides: is reasonable. texinfo-4.8-9.2.fc5.1 has been pushed for fc5, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report. Both packages should be pushed now. Thanks for the FC-4 and FC-5 updates. |