scallywag zp_texlive_finish.dash failing exit code 2 rebuilding installed formats

[Brian Inglis]

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.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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