tlpsrc2spec

WARNING: This is for RPM packager's use.

Creates RPM Spec file (except for %prep, %build and %install sections) from tlpsrc tlpdb files.

Currently, this program is only for Momonga Linux. If you want to use this framework for your distribution, it is already ready to separate the framework and the code specific to Momonga Linux. Please open an issue to request this.

Installation

1. Install Crystal compiler and development package of RPM
   • See also the instructions for crystal-rpm.
2. Install the dependencies (shard install)
3. Build the app (shard build)
   • I recommended --release option before, but it takes very very long time now.
4. You can run the built executable from anywhere and/or install to anywhere.

Usage

Prerequisites

• (of course) TeX Live's original package database file.
• Template RPM spec file to generate onto.
  • Sections %prep, %build, major part of %install, %check, %changelog, etc will taken from this file.
• RPM spec file(s) which generates previous version of installation.
  • This file is only for collecting package names which the new installation should obsolete .
• Binary RPM packages which corresponding above RPM spec file.
  • These packages can be installed or not installed.
• kpsewhich command. This command must be installed on the system.
• texmf.cnf that comes from previous version of installation. This also must be installed on the system. kpsewhich never reads texmf.cnf placed at TEXMFHOME tree.

Optional requirements

• fakechroot command
  • Create database of RPM without modifying the system.
  • If you choose to install binary packages to be obsoleted, fakechroot command is not required.
  • You can use root permission instead, but not strongly recommended.

Run

The program can be called from anywhere (unless filesystem prevents execution).

Usage: tlpsrc2spec --tlpdb=[TLPDB] --template=[Template] --installed=[current]
    -t, --tlpdb=FILE                 TeX Live Package Database file
    -T, --template=FILE              Template RPM Spec file
    -I, --installed=FILE             RPM Spec file used for current installation
    -o, --output=FILE                Output spec file name
    -P, --topdir=DIR                 Read packages from given path
    -L, --log=NAME                   Log file output name
    -v, --verbose                    Be Verbose
    -q, --quiet                      Be Quiet
    -h, --help                       Show this help

If -P is given, installs them to temporary directory on /tmp/tlpsrc2spec-rpmdb. This path can be changed by the TLPSRC2SPEC_RPMDB environment variable. In this case, the directory must be created.

If -P is used, the program requires chroot() available. The build process of creating RPM DB is equivalent to install packages with rpm -ivh --justdb package.rpm.

Development

• Make sure to run crystal tool format before commit. Currently no hooks are deployed on this repository. Sorry!

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/lugia-kun/tlpsrc2spec/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Hajime Yoshimori - creator and maintainer