Re: scallywag zp_texlive_finish.dash failing exit code 2 rebuilding installed formats

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 8/23/2021 8:26 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-08-23 15:08, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 8/23/2021 2:46 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2021-08-22 16:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> OK, your later messages explain it better.  I'll have to look at 
>>>> texlive-collection-formatsextra; it's possible that it needs to require 
>>>> texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.  But a better solution to your 
>>>> immediate problem would be for someone to look at docbook-utils and see 
>>>> whether it really needs texlive-collection-formatsextra.  It currently 
>>>> requires the obsolete texlive-collection-htmlxml, which pulls in a lot of 
>>>> other packages, probably unnecessarily in most cases.  See
>>>>    https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/texlive-collection-htmlxml.html
> 
>>> That would require a TeX-y who knows the TeX relationships of the files.
>>>  From what I can see jadetex and pdfjadtex are used by docbook-utils,
> 
>> OK, so docbook-utils definitely needs texlive-collection-formatsextra, which 
>> is what I hoped to avoid.  In that case, it's probably not worth checking 
>> whether it needs the other dependencies of texlive-collection-htmlxml.
>> And jadetex needs texlive-collection-fontsrecommended for marvosym, so I need 
>> to fix the dependencies of texlive-collection-formatsextra.  I'll do that 
>> shortly.
> 
> Thanks Ken
> 
>> Thanks for reporting the problem.
> 
> I will trim back the BUILD_REQUIRES to ...formatsextra (and ...plaingeneric? for 
> html?) without other additions to see if zp_texlive_finish.dash completes under 
> scallywag and also whether the package builds with just those packages.

Why do you need explicit texlive build dependencies at all?  If what you really 
need is docbook-utils, you should just require it and let it pull in whatever 
texlive collections are needed.  This should work now that I've fixed formatsextra.

Ken