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Bug 554780 - app-text/texlive-core - pkg_postinst() mentions dead link for help on migration
Summary: app-text/texlive-core - pkg_postinst() mentions dead link for help on migration
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project-specific documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Alexis Ballier
URL: https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/te...
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Keywords:
: 555292 556454 558802 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2015-07-13 18:18 UTC by m.manico
Modified: 2016-10-14 12:20 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description m.manico 2015-07-13 18:18:00 UTC 
When emerging texlive-core the package message states:

 * If you are migrating from an older TeX distribution
 * Please make sure you have read:
 * http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml
 * in order to avoid possible problems
 * 

That link leads to a 404 error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4
Actual Results:  
 * Messages for package app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4:

 * 
 * If you have configuration files in /etc/texmf to merge,
 * please update them and run /usr/sbin/texmf-update.
 * 
 * If you are migrating from an older TeX distribution
 * Please make sure you have read:
 * http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml
 * in order to avoid possible problems
 * 
 * TeXLive has been split in various ebuilds. If you are missing a
 * package to process your TeX documents, you can install
 * dev-tex/texmfind to easily search for them.
 * 


Expected Results:  
Either the links should be removed or updated.

It seems the message was relevant around 2009

https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2009-04-06-tetex.html
Comment 1 Hendrik v. Raven 2015-07-18 15:24:09 UTC 
error still exists in texlive-2015
Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2015-07-18 21:08:19 UTC 
*** Bug 555292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2015-10-15 12:02:54 UTC 
*** Bug 558802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2015-10-15 12:03:16 UTC 
*** Bug 556454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-10-15 18:53:45 UTC 
Are you sure we need to still show that elog message? I wonder how many people is still needing to migrate from old tetex and co. to texlive :/
Comment 6 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2015-10-16 06:49:16 UTC 
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #5)
> Are you sure we need to still show that elog message? I wonder how many
> people is still needing to migrate from old tetex and co. to texlive :/

the elog message as such: clearly no. but it could be replaced by "troubleshooting", since texlive is quite sensible to stray files leftover & co (causes build failures)
Comment 7 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2016-05-03 10:43:02 UTC 
OK, then, maybe this can be used as a starting point:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:TeX/Tex_Live_Migration_Guide

It should probably be reduced a lot for dropping the instructions to come from tetex... in that case it could be renamed too for covering only the "Common problems" stuff :/, but that would be your call as you are the expert on tex :)
Comment 8 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2016-10-14 12:20:08 UTC 
commit 23605a9e7bd754f16f7ada492e2354162027a5cf
Author: Michael Mair-Keimberger (asterix) <m.mairkeimberger@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 16 18:12:49 2016 +0200

    app-text/texlive-core: fix texlive guide link