[OpenIndiana-discuss] TeX Live 2021 available for OpenIndiana

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I'm pleased to announce that the progress of the last couple of weeks
in creating new OpenIndiana virtual machines on VirtualBox,
virt-manager/QEMU, and OVirt/QEMU, has made it possible to do complete
builds, both 32-bit and 64-bit, of TeX Live 2021.

They are available at these equivalent sites:

	 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/
	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/
	  ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/

The ftp:// one, however does not display the README.html
file that the other two do.

The first section gives instructions on installing TeX Live 2021, with
links to another page on how to validate the download.  Later sections
describe the build procedures and reports for various systems.

The direct link
	
	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/#openindiana-i86pc

takes you to the subsections for OpenIndiana.

This year, because of decreasing desktop demand for the Solaris
family, the DVDs and ISO image are not likely to include binary
executables for those systems, but they are trivial to fetch and
install from our site, which is also the North American master mirror
for both CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) and for TeX Live.

If you decide to install TeX Live 2021 on your system, be forewarned
that you must pick at least one binary platform in the B menu produced
by install-tl; any one will do.  You can pre- or post-populate the
$prefix/texlive/2021/bin directory with either, or both, OpenIndiana
directories.  After installation, you can remove any directories under
the bin directory that your system cannot use.

The OpenIndiana package system does not have TeX Live at all, and the
OpenCSW package system (in /opt/csw) has only an ancient one, from
2012.  There have been yearly releases of TeX Live since at least
2003, and there are a lot of changes each year, although TeX and
METAFONT remain quite stable.  

This year, both programs, and their five-volume book series, have had
updates: see

	https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf

The changes, however, deal with rare corner cases that almost no real
document would ever hit, so the new TeX's output should not differ
from that from older versions.

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