hmenke: welcome :)
Paulo Cereda: While I'm here: Any chance we are going to see native Arara binaries at some point? Kotlin supports building native code: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mpp-build-native-binaries.html
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But since I don't speak Kotlin myself, I don't know what kinds of caveats are involved there.
I already had the feeling that it wouldn't be that easy. Thanks for looking into it.
What's the size of the IoT TeX Live Docker images? I'm considering using them for CI, but I'm also a little bit concerned about bandwidth, because on those systems unused images are pruned nightly.
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Ideally you wouldn't install all of TeX Live into a single layer as you are doing right now. The perfect layering would install packages with a similar update frequency in upper layers and base packages in lower layers.
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Maybe you will find this interesting: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images
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Unfortunately, TeX Live's dependency management is suboptimal, to say it politely, so applying this technique will be non-trivial.
Putting weekly updates in their own layer should work out. There is an upper limit of 125 layers (or so) in a Docker image, but since TeX Live releases only live for a year there can be at most 52 weekly updates.
Hi Paulo!
I've just updated arara on TeX Live and noticed a difference. Currently TL has bib2gls v2.7, but I have bib2gls aliased to my local copy (2.8). Previously arara was using my development version (from the alias) but now its using the TL version.
I'm not sure if maybe I also installed TL bib2gls when I was updating arara.
IIRC the execution thingy refers to the first match in a path lookup. Maybe TL bib2gls was indeed updated and the TL path might be first, it was selected...
How was bib2gls 2.8 referenced? As an alias?
I don't know if aliases would work in a subprocess...
Yes, it's aliased in my
.bashrc as alias bib2gls=$HOME/programming/java/bib2gls/src/bin/bib2gls
I'll try added a symlink in
~/bin instead of an alias. That directory comes before TL's bin
What does
which -a bib2gls give?
Don't know why it worked before but then stopped working
alias bib2gls='/home/nlct/programming/java/bib2gls/src/bin/bib2gls'
~/programming/java/bib2gls/src/bin/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
/usr/local/texlive/default/bin/x86_64-linux/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
/usr/local/texlive/default/bin/x86_64-linux/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
Oh it's missing the first line
```
it's a secret location :)
alias bib2gls='/home/nlct/programming/java/bib2gls/src/bin/bib2gls'
~/programming/java/bib2gls/src/bin/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
/usr/local/texlive/default/bin/x86_64-linux/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
/usr/local/texlive/default/bin/x86_64-linux/bib2gls
~/bin/bib2gls
I unaliased
bib2gls in a different terminal.
I think my
PATH has got a bit muddled.
But what do I know, I am a duck :)
Thanks for your help :)
I want to give the IoT TL image a shot for PGF CI, but for that I need curl. Would it be possible to add curl to the base image?
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Cheers. I think the addition of curl would also be beneficial for other users. For example
l3build also depends on curl for the CTAN upload.
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