On 19-11-2024 15:50, Theo Buehler wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 03:40:38PM +0000, Fred wrote:
>> On 19-11-2024 09:36, Edd Barrett wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 09:33:15PM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:
>>>> Here's the update to TeX Live 2024.
>>>
>>> Has anyone been brave enough to give this a shot?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>> Hi Edd,
>>
>> I'm just trying it now - running into dependency issue, that I've not yet
>> solved:
>>
>> ===>  Building package for texlive_base-2024
>> Create /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/texlive_base-2024.tgz
>>>> Broken dependency: lang/python/3 non existent
> 
> The ports.tgz shipped with 7.6 stable is broken because it didn't include
> lang/python/3.
> 
> Use a tree checked out with cvs or git. It would be preferable to test
> on current rather than stable (if you're actually on stable).
> 
Thanks that was the issue - I had failed to cvs up.

I am now building luametatex - from Edd's earlier update that I had also 
missed.

Hope to have some feedback on texlive 2024 soon.

Cheers

Fred