Force particular repo to increase predictability (#2746)

The repository used by the texlive installer defaults to a redirector
that sends one off to various URLs depending on <fill in the blank>.

This is problematic because all of the mirrors do not update in
synchrony and bad tarballs often hang around for a while.

This leads to problems that are particularly hard to diagnose because
you're likely to end up using a different repo the next time around.

This commit constraints the package to a particular, mainstream,
repository.  It's not fast, but it's consistent and usually correct.

It also updates the installer digest, because no day is complete
without updating it at least (sigh) once.
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George Hartzell 2017-02-03 15:44:26 -08:00 committed by Todd Gamblin
parent 5a836fd06e
commit b28d8345ec

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@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class Texlive(Package):
# digest values, but don't be surprised if this package is
# briefly unbuildable.
#
version('live', '01461ec2cc49fe0b14812eb67abbea46',
version('live', 'ad230fa814d122084c13d75c0b135fda',
url="http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz")
# There does not seem to be a complete list of schemes.
@ -59,9 +59,14 @@ class Texlive(Package):
depends_on('perl', type='build')
def install(self, spec, prefix):
# Using texlive's mirror system leads to mysterious problems,
# in lieu of being able to specify a repository as a variant, hardwire
# a particular (slow, but central) one for now.
_repository='http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/'
env = os.environ
env['TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX'] = prefix
perl = which('perl')
scheme = spec.variants['scheme'].value
perl('./install-tl', '-scheme', scheme,
'-repository', _repository,
'-portable', '-profile', '/dev/null')