[Nix-dev] TexLive binaries using local installation, or eventually tetex

[Valentin David]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
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> Valentin David wrote:
>> Now, it calls the good pdflatex. But then it looks for pdflatex.fmt.
>> And apparently this file is neither in the texlive package nor the
>> texlive-extra one. So it takes the one in the local installation.
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> How did you install TeXLive? Unfortunately, it needs installing a
> wrapper expression. I decided to do it this ugly way because I need to
> regenerate some index files to get anything to work.. You can look in my
> configuration.nix in configurations/ tree for an example of installing
> an expression for TeXLive.

I added it as dependency to the package I am trying to build. It
installed it. To test it after, since it was working strangely, I did
a nix-env -i of the package in my local store.

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Valentin David
valentin.david at gmail.com