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| author | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2017-06-09 12:35:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2017-06-15 17:03:19 +0200 |
| commit | afbc94194e223378dd3aece6e2330015e5e57a1e (patch) | |
| tree | 443c5590cacdba704fe06744bd70880bc2b29fce /doc | |
| parent | 9d4f8dc289c80e23c8770b340c452693feccbe3b (diff) | |
| download | guix-afbc94194e223378dd3aece6e2330015e5e57a1e.tar.gz | |
guix: Add texlive importer.
* guix/import/texlive.scm: New file. * guix/scripts/import/texlive.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them. * tests/texlive.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (SCM_TESTS): Add it. * guix/scripts/import.scm (importers): Add texlive importer. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Document it.
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1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 056059d04b..97fa1b7864 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017 Ricardo Wurmus@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Efraim Flashner@* @@ -5671,6 +5671,38 @@ R package: guix import cran --archive=bioconductor GenomicRanges @end example +@item texlive +@cindex TeX Live +@cindex CTAN +Import metadata from @uref{http://www.ctan.org/, CTAN}, the +comprehensive TeX archive network for TeX packages that are part of the +@uref{https://www.tug.org/texlive/, TeX Live distribution}. + +Information about the package is obtained through the XML API provided +by CTAN, while the source code is downloaded from the SVN repository of +the Tex Live project. This is done because the CTAN does not keep +versioned archives. + +The command command below imports metadata for the @code{fontspec} +TeX package: + +@example +guix import texlive fontspec +@end example + +When @code{--archive=DIRECTORY} is added, the source code is downloaded +not from the @file{latex} sub-directory of the @file{texmf-dist/source} +tree in the TeX Live SVN repository, but from the specified sibling +directory under the same root. + +The command below imports metadata for the @code{ifxetex} package from +CTAN while fetching the sources from the directory +@file{texmf/source/generic}: + +@example +guix import texlive --archive=generic ifxetex +@end example + @item nix Import metadata from a local copy of the source of the @uref{http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/, Nixpkgs distribution}@footnote{This |