Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

[szgyg <szgyg at ludens dot elte dot hu>]

Ken Brown, 2014.11.17. 12:00 :
> What I have in mind is simpler than this.  There's nothing wrong with
> the existing texlive postinstall scripts except slowness, due to the
> repetition of time-consuming commands in different scripts.  So I just
> need to do some rearranging:
>
> 1. I would create a pre-postinstall perpetual script that checks
> /etc/postinstall to see if there are any ordinary texlive postinstall
> scripts that are not marked as done.  If so, it runs mktexlsr.  [This
> may not be necessary; I have to think about it some more.]
>
> 2. I would modify all ordinary texlive postinstall scripts to remove all
> calls to mktexlsr, fc-cache, and updmap-sys, except for calls to the
> latter that simply enable maps.  And I would remove the --nohash option
> from those.  In addition, these scripts would create a marker file to
> indicate that updmap-sys and fc-cache need to be run later.
>
> 3. I would create a post-postinstall perpetual script that runs
> updmap-sys and fc-cache as needed.

I have a half-baked cygport patch for texlive postinstall. I dropped it 
because I don't use cygwin's tex anymore, but it may have some value.

Packages put commands in /etc/postinstall/texlive. The first postinstall 
script runs and removes them, so subsequent postinsall scripts will see 
an empty workqueue. Ordering is done by assigning priorities to commands.

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