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antolap
June 3rd, 2012, 18:28
I'd like to get TexLive 2011 into the ports collection.

Thanks
graudeejs
June 3rd, 2012, 19:28
I'd like to get TexLive 2011 into the ports collection.

Thanks

Welcome to the club.

Currently best option is to get TeXLive with ports-mgmt/portshaker
DragonSA
June 3rd, 2012, 19:39
Welcome to the club.

Currently best option is to get TeXLive with ports-mgmt/portshaker

I looked through the PRs and only found ports/144057 that referred to TeXLive and that was closed due to submitter time-out. Is there any particular reason why TeXLive isn't in ports?

I am keen to see TeTex replaced by a better option as it is starting to show it's age.
graudeejs
June 3rd, 2012, 21:03
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-May/038948.html

We really need FreeBSD TeXLive merge into ports petition
wblock@
June 4th, 2012, 00:09
I looked through the PRs and only found ports/144057 that referred to TeXLive and that was closed due to submitter time-out. Is there any particular reason why TeXLive isn't in ports?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-May/075264.html
DragonSA
June 4th, 2012, 08:15
It looks like the requirements for a TeXLive are:

self contained (issues with downloads of unchecksummed files during build, install)
generally static after install (issues with tlmgr [or something] doing upgrades)
not conflicting with custom installs of texmf modules (custom texmf modules breaking things)

Also, I believe, a migration plan needs to be set up to replace TeTex. It appears the entire tex system is quite big and efforts to make TeXLive work seamlessly might actually hinder a native FreeBSD port. It appears to have a similar order of complexity as xorg/qt/kde.

This definitely seems doable, as others such as Debian, Gentoo and OpenBSD have (it appears) succeeded. Since I am brain-dumping I shall include some resources a quick search has provided me:
ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2011/
http://people.freebsd.org/~stephen/
http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/Debian-TeX-Policy/index.html
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/eurotex07-preining-talk.pdf
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/texlive/