[Nix-dev] updating pgf-tikz

raffalli at univ-savoie.fr raffalli at univ-savoie.fr
Thu Jun 13 13:55:59 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 01:03:04PM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote:
> >I tried to upgrade pgf/tikz in texlive to version 2.10 (which I need to work).
> >I succeded from a tar.gz in the debian mirror, but never from the .tdf.zip from sourceforge. The nix expression
> >is not completely trivial, I managed to have an accepted [ unzip ] as buildInputs,
> >but I got "unzip command not found". 
> >
> >The download page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/
> >
> >And the nix file with a working .tar.gz is attached.
> 
> Well, current master version seems to be a better start for upgrading
>

Why not, but there may be a problem with the checksum ?
 
> >  propagatedBuildInputs = [texLiveLatexXColor texLive];
> 
> Do you think these are needed? You need a wrapper anyway, and you don't
> use the build inputs. If all TeX subpackages don't use TeX explicitly,
> they are better compatible if we change the TeX implementation and also
> they can be easily unpacked in parallel when TeX is being updated
>

I don't known, I dit not change this part. 
I know that xcolor is necessary and probably a few standard package. So I would guess yes.

Cheers,
Christophe

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