Re: Texlive: Asymptote error: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Since we are on the verge of revamping our TeX packages, I'm stopping
> the guessing game and I've looked at tlpdb.  So here is the deal:

Heh, I wasn’t guessing.  I also looked at the tlpdb ;)

> 2 packages:
>
> - fontinst: depends on fontinst.ARCH, required only by
> collection-fontutils. Contains some 100s files, most of which are
> located in texmf-dist/tex/fontinst/.  Our texlive-tex-fontinst-base is
> missing most of those.
>
> - fontinst.ARCH: only contains bin/ARCH/fontinst.  Our texlive-bin has them.
>
> So as far as I get it, our texlive-bin should be enough to generate a
> full texlive-fontinst.  What do you think?

This is the equivalent of “doing it manually” as we cannot simply use
the texlive-build-system.  It might be enough.  Do you want to give it a
try?

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Ricardo