Re: TeXlive packages

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:36:52PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
> I’m creating a TeXlive package.  The instructions in the Pkgsrc Guide (section 14.1.3) seem a bit out of date, so I would like to fix them.  See the current text at the end below.
> 
> It seems that the easiest way to create a package is to do the following (remove the -d for no doc package)
> 
> 	texlive2pkg -d https://www.texlive.info/tlnet-archive/YYYY/MM/DD/tlnet/archive/foo.tar.xz
> 
> after having browsed the archive to find the appropriate values of YYYY/MM/DD (and of course the right foo).
> 
> Currently, the Guide refers to CTAN, not the texlive archive, and I am finding it really hard (read: impossible) to find the equivalent of the archive there.  

Check http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/ or any of the other CTAN mirrors.
 Thomas