From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sun Oct 1 01:31:54 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Sun Oct 1 00:32:03 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] New i-Installer version Message-ID: <64C0259A-D017-4E83-8187-362ED76E6FC9@rna.nl> 2.80 has been released as i-Package in the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory and as ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/volumes/ii2/II2-beta.dmg Some small fixes and initial support for something that all my i- Packages will use. No fundamental changes to i-Installer.app itself. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 9 22:03:26 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 9 21:03:40 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Re: [OS X TeX] Asymptote and Latex for Tiger In-Reply-To: <8682FA24-A115-4FA7-83E6-31464507D79F@rna.nl> References: <19B65E1A-1C56-4A66-A03D-293DC122B5EF@mac.com> <8EA66E4A-DAD8-4E62-AB12-BA766098C6B3@rna.nl> <8682FA24-A115-4FA7-83E6-31464507D79F@rna.nl> Message-ID: <39769E29-A048-44F8-8616-01B2C1208C9D@rna.nl> On Oct 8, 2006, at 14:52 , Gerben Wierda wrote: > I think I can do this quickly. Just wait a short while for an > experimental i-Package. It was a bit more problematic than it looked initially. I have prepared an i-Package for Asymptote. This required a bit of fiddling as - Asymptote does require a readline that is newer than what Apple ships up to 10.4.8 - Asymptote does require a libc with getopt_long_only() which is unavailable on Mac OS X 10.3.9 hence I cannot compile it on my standard and only PPC-system as part of my standard `universal binary' builds (ppc on 10.3.9, intel on 10.4.8 and then combine the results) - Asymptote can be compiled universal on 10.4.8, but it `requires' Hans Boehm's Garbage Collector which cannot be compiled universal in one go Asymptote also `requires' FFTW, the Fast Fourier Transform Library. However, I was able to solve the real problems of readline/getopt and getting it compiled by - Downloading Hans Boehm's GC library, compiling this on intel 10.4.8 and ppc 10.3.9 and creating an i-Package for it and installing this. - Adapting the Makefile and config.h of asymptote to use a system- wide GC and to not use readline (so no readline editing of the command line arguments) - Building asy directly on Mac OS X 10.4.8 for i386 ad ppc And of course I had to install FFTW for which I also made an i-Package. Hence, there now is - An i-Package for FFTW - An i-Package for Hans Boehm's Garbage Collection Library - An i-Package for Asymptote G > > G > > On Oct 8, 2006, at 12:35 , Gerben Wierda wrote: > >> On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:28 , Alain Matthes wrote: >> >>> Hello :) sorry for my bad english >>> >>> I know that's is off topic but Asymptote is a very good soft and >>> on Ubuntu >>> it' a pleasure to work with him and latex. >>> >>> I've some difficulties to compile the source on a G5 mono. >>> Perhaps someone succeeded in doing it and can explain me how to >>> proceed >> >> I had a quick look. It seems that the readline that ships with Mac >> OS X ( eve the most recent one) is old. asymptote assumes a >> different readline and compilation fails on the differences. >> >> There are two ways forward: >> - patch asymptote until it matches Apple's readline from 2004 or >> better until it can handle older readlines properly when compiling. >> - install readline from 2005 (this is risky if not performed with >> care) >> >> A bit more inspection of asymptote (ChangeLog) suggests you can >> compile een when readline is not present. You will get a asy that >> has no command line editing, but that does work. So, after >> configure, I dited Makefile and config.h to remove readline (no - >> lreadline in Makefile and the READLINE define commented out in >> config.h). >> >> After that I got a complete compile. If I was not so busy, I could >> probably create an i-Package for it in an hour or so. >> >> It may be best to ask the asymptote maintainers to add a --without- >> readline option to ./configure >> >> Yours, >> >> G >> ------------------------- Info -------------------------- >> Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ >> & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/ >> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq >> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ >> >> > > ------------------------- Info -------------------------- > Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ > & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/ > TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq > List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ > > From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 9 23:48:43 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 9 22:48:55 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Re: [OS X TeX] Asymptote and Latex for Tiger In-Reply-To: <22F2B785-4B20-4603-A4C5-1BEF69958857@engr.psu.edu> References: <19B65E1A-1C56-4A66-A03D-293DC122B5EF@mac.com> <8EA66E4A-DAD8-4E62-AB12-BA766098C6B3@rna.nl> <8682FA24-A115-4FA7-83E6-31464507D79F@rna.nl> <39769E29-A048-44F8-8616-01B2C1208C9D@rna.nl> <25B46532-84C6-4710-9509-78F735EE716D@lanl.gov> <22F2B785-4B20-4603-A4C5-1BEF69958857@engr.psu.edu> Message-ID: On Oct 9, 2006, at 22:08 , Gary L. Gray wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Peter Lichtner wrote: > >> What version of i-Installer should one use? I have both 2.79 and >> 2.69 and neither one works. When trying to open i-Package >> Asymptote, FFTW, and Han's Boehm's Garbage Collection, I get the >> error message: Package requires recent i-Installer. This i-Package >> needs a more recent version of i-Installer. > > Version 2.80 is available from: > > ftp://ftp.tug.org/mirror/ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/volumes/ii2/ > II2.dmg Version 2.81 is available there, as well as via i-Installer itself (the i-Installer i-Package) This happens when you do a side action while also doing a major rework.... Apologies for the confusion. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Wed Oct 11 01:14:53 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Wed Oct 11 00:15:05 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.82 released. Security release: all users requested to upgrade Message-ID: I have noticed that the setup of i-Installer brings with it a potential security issue which is also potentially serious. This find (by myself, luckily) is not a happy event for me. I have patched i-Installer. As a result, installing i-Installer with drag-and-drop from the II2.dmg volume is now deprecated. The II2.dmg now contains an Apple Installer.app package which installs i- Installer. Also, upgrading with the i-Installer i-Package is supported. i-Installer itself now contains some basic checks for this security issue. All i-Packages will be upgraded/released shortly and they will all contain a check for i-Installer version 2.82 or up to force users to upgrade. The issue is serious enough for me to speed the release of many i- Packages I have been working on and to kill all older releases of i- Installer from the .dmg repository. As a result of the speed up of the releases, there is no testing period for those i-Packages and I therefore expect that there will be more problem/bug reports than usual. My apologies beforehand. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Wed Oct 11 02:20:44 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Wed Oct 11 01:20:56 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Re: [OS X TeX] i-Installer 2.82 released. Security release: all users requested to upgrade In-Reply-To: <452C219F.8040008@gmail.com> References: <452C219F.8040008@gmail.com> Message-ID: <6CF03F8D-E2D3-4EC7-8263-4341934C6DFC@rna.nl> On Oct 11, 2006, at 00:41 , Alain Schremmer wrote: > Gerben Wierda wrote: > >> I have noticed that the setup of i-Installer brings with it a >> potential security issue which is also potentially serious. This >> find (by myself, luckily) is not a happy event for me. >> >> I have patched i-Installer. As a result, installing i-Installer >> with drag-and-drop from the II2.dmg volume is now deprecated. The >> II2.dmg now contains an Apple Installer.app package which installs >> i- Installer. Also, upgrading with the i-Installer i-Package is >> supported. >> >> i-Installer itself now contains some basic checks for this >> security issue. >> >> All i-Packages will be upgraded/released shortly and they will all >> contain a check for i-Installer version 2.82 or up to force users >> to upgrade. > > Am I correct to understand this to mean that it is /installing/ > that is a potential security issue but that stuff that is already / > installed/?in my case v2.65.2 and stuff of that same age?are OK as > long as I don't install anything else with it? Correct. As far as I know, there is no actual exploit and there is only a possible exploit if someone already has access to your system through a real login (no exploit via network or so). G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Fri Oct 13 19:02:29 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Oct 13 18:02:47 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] OCaml i-Package removed Message-ID: I have removed the OCaml i-Package until I can get it right. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 16 22:30:14 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 16 21:30:30 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer updated to 2.83 Message-ID: <5E4C55E6-C93A-4327-B136-1DFD46504B5A@rna.nl> Hmm, I have been working on further fixes and changes and did not plan to release my current version (2.83) yet, but I had forgotten about the automatic ConTeXt i-Package update. Hence, the ConTeXt i-Package has been automatically updated with a new version of ConTeXt beta, but it was already locally configured for i-Installer version 2.83. So, I am forced to update i-Installer to 2.83 and as a result also update all the i-Packages because there is an incompatibility between the current i-Package and the new version. I apologize for the mess, it is the result of the security fix I wanted to publish immediately and which has forced a publishing cycle on me in the middle of serious maintanance. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 16 22:51:39 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 16 21:51:55 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Difficult period Message-ID: <1E3ED569-6B62-4E03-A286-5890E4EED820@rna.nl> As the result of the forced release in the middle of some serious rework, the situation around the i-Packages and i-Installer has become far form ideal. I would like to apologize beforehand for the instabilties this may cause and at the same time I am now asking for your help: please *do* download and install and report back to me so that I can fix what might have gone wrong in the flurry of activites now on my desk (and for which I do not have enough time) i-Installer 2.83 has been released (note: please check that it is the Build of Oct 16, 13:02 GMT, another build that is less backward compatible was available for 10 minutes or so in Apple Installer.app .pkg form) All the i-Package have been adapted to follow the 2.82 -> 2.83 upgrade and are uploading as I write this. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Fri Oct 27 22:06:43 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Oct 27 21:07:34 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] New experimental TeXLive i-Package Message-ID: A new TeXLive i-Package is now available In the *experimental* i- Directory. This is the first release of what is to become the replacement of the TeX i-Package. The i-Package installs by default in /usr/local/TeXLive and it is completely separated from the old i-Package. Both can live on a system concurrently. Switching between both on the command line can be done by rerunning the configure phase of each and selecting CLI activation. The existing add-ons (CM-Super, ConTeXt Updater, MusixTeX etc) still install by default in the TeX i-Package location (/usr/local/teTeX). This will change in the future, with some additional support from i- Installer for handling multiple possible preferred install locations. If you want to add these to the TeXLive setup, please use /usr/local/ TeXLive/texmf.pkgs as install location. Note that if you have a personal configuration in ~/Library/texmf it is unlikely to work entirely with the TL-setup. Especially hyphenation patterns will probably not work because the names in teTeX differ from those in TeX Live. The total installed size of the main texmf tree + the gwtex texmf tree has grown from 295MB to 357MB. The plan to fragment the i-Package so its inside chunks correspond with TeX Live packages (tpm's) has not been effected yet. Hence, currently, there are only a few inside chunks, some of which are quite large. As is, the setup is comparable to the former TeX i-Package. Release notes: 2006/10/27: ? Initial experimental release. ? Based on TeX Live revision 2372 (2006/10/25 21:00) ? XeTeX is included but currently not available on ppc, only on intel I welcome reports. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sat Oct 28 00:07:06 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Oct 27 23:07:14 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Availability of *EXPERIMENTAL* TeX Live i-Package Message-ID: <0c99661014f20c9fb947661753568d30@rna.nl> Note: this i-Package may sometimes be blocked wile I investigate reported problems. i-Installer will report that the i-Package is being updated. Given the recent nature of this i-Package, this may happen regularly the next couple of days. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sat Oct 28 00:39:07 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Oct 27 23:39:58 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Request re testing of TeX Live i-Package Message-ID: If you test, please set the Log Level to 1 beforehand in i-Installer preferences. This gives a bit more output during an i-Package run. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sat Oct 28 16:57:16 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Sat Oct 28 15:58:10 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.84 released In-Reply-To: <2893E042-EF7D-4050-AE30-4479295D9754@mac.com> References: <3235D7E5-C0ED-4DFB-B325-6C9FDEB7035C@mac.com> <00BE3131-E30C-4B84-904D-FFDFB83020C4@Web.DE> <41F89778-284B-4AF4-B81D-E0C8EBC64F11@rna.nl> <2893E042-EF7D-4050-AE30-4479295D9754@mac.com> Message-ID: <007CB711-9192-4021-B20C-11D35700957A@rna.nl> The new TeX Live i-Package triggered a non-dangerous but crippling bug in i-Installer regarding the downloads of missing parts. This has been fixed. G On 28 Oct 2006, at 12:20 , Friedrich Vosberg wrote: > > Am 27.10.2006 um 22.18 schrieb Gerben Wierda: > >> On 27 Oct 2006, at 11:22 , Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >>> In general: no, since teTeX's dead. Nothing *EXPERIMENTAL* is >>> available (yet). >>> PSTricks is 2004/05/12 v0.2l. >>> Xkeyval is 2005/01/30 v2.0. >>> Xcolor is v2.00 2004/07/04. >>> PdfTeX is 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2. >>> Graphicx is 1999/02/16 v1.0f. >> >> But there is now (TeX Live i-Package): > > But I can not install it: > > ===== ><8 ===== > Can't locate /Users/fv/Documents/i-Packages/texlive.ii2/ > texlive.sharedscript.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/ > Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 / > Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 / > Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread- > multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Network/Library/Perl / > System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/ > Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread- > multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /Users/fv/Documents/i- > Packages/texlive.ii2/texlive.selector line 25. > ===== 8>< ===== > > Could you please explain what the machine wants to tell me? > > TIA and kind regards. Friedrich > > -- > ?Wir haben zu wenig Kinder, und wir werden immer > ?lter.? (Bundespr?sident Horst K?hler, 21. Juli 2005) > > > > ------------------------- Info -------------------------- > Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ > & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/ > TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq > List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ > > From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 00:21:58 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 00:22:54 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.85 released, MusixTeX in *EXPERIMENTAL* Message-ID: <5FB479D6-30B1-4438-A3A3-85023D547E26@rna.nl> i-Installer 2.85 has been released. 2006/10/29 ? Version 2.85. ? Buglet fix: Do not display archive chunks in Pkg Contents tab. An earlier fix here to enable the display of compressed tar archives other than those of the i-Package chunks (which are displayed together as "Archive") was too liberal. ? Added code to handle multiple default install locations. Not documented in Help yet. ? Changed code that might or might not lead to a crash (autoreleased item changed to retained / released as possibly the event loop interferes) ? Added check for missing or empty PATH in environment ? Added check if i-Installer itself was changed by a succesful install. I still need to look into some reports that suffer from the fact that basic files are not found during configuration. These extra checks may help. The MusixTeX i-Package has been updated. It contains info on both old and new TeX locations which are useful for i-Installer 2.85 and ignored in earlier versions. If you have both the TeX and the TeX Live i-Package installed in default locations, it will offer you a choice where it will install itself. If you have installed the TeX Live i-Package and removed the old /usr/local/teTeX install, it will offer to change the install location from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local to /usr/local/ TeXLive/texmf.pkgs It is my intention to change all TeX Support i-Packages (CM-Super, CB- Greek, ConTeXt-Updater) likewise. Note: given my deadline (I fly to Marrakech for TUG2006 next Saturday, I have only 2 days or so left to finish this, so testing and reports remain welcome). G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 01:28:02 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 01:28:59 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Many i-Packages are currently updating for a bug fix Message-ID: <041D04C0-CC7E-4FE0-B3A1-B42332917F15@rna.nl> Recently a rather large rework/cleanup action on the i-Packages was interrupted by a security issue in i-Installer which required a fix in i-installer and an update of all the i-Packages (the latter to force users to upgrade). As this was done during the rework, things were not fully done and tested and now a bug affecting many i- Packages has come to light. Many i-Packages now call the uninstall phase as part of the install- preparation phase. To prevent a mix of old and new, it has always been true that old installs were removed before unarchiving took place. The cleanup of the code included that all prepare phases doing a remove used the uninstall phase for this (unless there are reasons not to). As a result, the i-Packages in question all had a prepare phase that became dependent on the uninstall phase. However, I had not yet added this dependency to the table of contents for those i-Packages. As a result, the uninstall just failed to run (no such script) unless the i-Package was fattened or unless the uninstall phase had been inspected. I have now added this dependency to the prepare phase of all i- Packages affected and these are now uploading. The i-Packages affected are: ImageMagick Xaw3d asy autotrace bibtool bzip2 fftw fondu fontconfig freetype2 gc gettext ghostscript-8 glib gv jpeg latex2rtf lcdftypetools libiconv libpng libtiff libwmf macutils mftrace ncftp netpbm ocaml p7zip pfaedit pkg-config potrace pstoedit rtf2latex2e subversion ttf2pt1 unison (note: not all in this list are currently released) The i-Packages wvWare and XFig remain blocked. I will be unable to solve this until we are a few weeks further (after TUG2006). G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 01:56:25 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 01:57:23 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.85 released, MusixTeX in *EXPERIMENTAL* In-Reply-To: <5FB479D6-30B1-4438-A3A3-85023D547E26@rna.nl> References: <5FB479D6-30B1-4438-A3A3-85023D547E26@rna.nl> Message-ID: <2F7C7C07-66D3-4A26-AA96-D0B24B8936D3@rna.nl> On 30 Oct 2006, at 00:21 , Gerben Wierda wrote: > The MusixTeX i-Package has been updated. It contains info on both > old and new TeX locations which are useful for i-Installer 2.85 and > ignored in earlier versions. I have it blocked in teh *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory because there is an issue that needs to be resolved first. G -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.rna.nl/pipermail/ii2-announce/attachments/20061030/92521268/attachment.html From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 02:01:22 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 02:02:17 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.85 released, MusixTeX in *EXPERIMENTAL* In-Reply-To: <5FB479D6-30B1-4438-A3A3-85023D547E26@rna.nl> References: <5FB479D6-30B1-4438-A3A3-85023D547E26@rna.nl> Message-ID: On 30 Oct 2006, at 00:21 , Gerben Wierda wrote: > The MusixTeX i-Package has been updated. It contains info on both > old and new TeX locations which are useful for i-Installer 2.85 and > ignored in earlier versions. I have it blocked in teh *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory because there is an issue that needs to be resolved first. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 12:34:40 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 12:35:37 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] TeXLive i-Package update Message-ID: <9BC6C4BB-E281-4DDB-9776-4D83957BD1D6@rna.nl> The problems some people experienced were the result of something as simple as a missing ls-R database (texhash/mktexlsr did not run). I think the situation now is that i-Installer 2.85 fixes the dependency problems and the TeX Live i-Package itself does the texhash when configuration follows installation. Both together should fix things. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Mon Oct 30 17:14:27 2006 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Mon Oct 30 17:15:30 2006 Subject: [Ii2-announce] First support i-Package updated for Tex Live; Crash note Message-ID: <70E52059-D585-45F2-9DBF-058AE1B6CF95@rna.nl> A first try: MusixTeX has been updated. With i-Installer 2.85 it is aware of both /usr/local/teTeX and /usr/local/TeXLive and the different subdir structure. There is a possible crasher in i-Installer (probably an object that is being freed once too many or being freed and then used (more likely). This will be difficult to pin down as it does not happen regularly. G