Bug 376831

Summary:	app-text/texlive-core-2011: if feasible, consider unbundling biber
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	tex
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rafał Mużyło 2011-07-28 23:36:07 UTC

First thing I've noticed about texlive-core 2011 was that the source tarball has grown about four times. Most of the growth is caused by bundling biber binaries (utils/biber).
biber upstream uses on shipped binaries some perl scheme that packs it with all perl modules it requires in one ELF file - texlive uses those.

If feasible, it would be welcome if Gentoo could unbundle that.

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2011-07-31 07:32:18 UTC

+*texlive-core-2011-r2 (31 Jul 2011)
+
+  31 Jul 2011; Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
+  -texlive-core-2011-r1.ebuild, +texlive-core-2011-r2.ebuild:
+  do not "build" biber, its a prebuilt binary -> not for us, well see about
+  making an ebuild for it later, by Rafał Mużyło in bug
+

Comment 2 Stephen Bosch 2012-04-29 16:54:15 UTC

Okay, so we've unbundled biber... which leaves Gentoo biber users high and dry. Is there an ebuild for this in the pipe?

When I create a biber package with g-ctan, I get a Gentoo ebuild with 6 files in it, none of which is the biber executable, so that's not a solution.

Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-04-29 17:26:04 UTC

See bug #340353