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bug#73295: TeX font maps are not reproducible
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From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
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Subject: |
bug#73295: TeX font maps are not reproducible |
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Date: |
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:02:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hello,
Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:
> The font maps generated during profile creation (procedure
> texlive-font-maps in guix/profiles.scm) are not reproducible: the order
> in which the files are listed in the ls-R file is not deterministic.
Unfortunately, I think there are other parts not reproducible in TeX
Live (e.g., formats).
> I suspect that the culprit is the mktexlsr utility which generates the
> non-deterministic ls-R files. It's worth exploring if it can be patched.
There is a sort option in the "mktexlsr" executable. It doesn't seem to
be accessible from the command line, tho. My Perl-fu is too weak to know
how to proceed from there.
Regards,
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Nicolas Goaziou