Creates a phantom RPM for EL (CentOS/Fedora/RHEL/Oracle) that "provides" all known TeX Live packages, so other packages will cooperate with a local TeX Live installation

texlive-build-synthentic-packages.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash
set -Eeuo pipefail

REV=2024
SPECFILE=
trap 'e=$?; trap - EXIT; [ -z "$SPECFILE" ] || rm -rf "$SPECFILE"; exit $e' EXIT
SPECFILE="$(mktemp)"

cat >"$SPECFILE" <<HEADER
Name:           texlive-FAKE
Version:        $REV
Release:        666%{?dist}
Summary:        Dummy wrapper for manual texlive install
License:        Artistic 2.0 and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and LPPL and MIT and Public Domain and UCD and Utopia
URL:            http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

BuildArch:      noarch
BuildRequires:  perl
Requires:       perl
HEADER

# add all the texlive package as conflicts and as provided by this
# package >:)

BINARY_PACKAGES=()

readarray -t LINES < <(yum search texlive)
for line in "${LINES[@]}"; do
    pkg=${line%%.*}
    case "$pkg" in
        "") echo "Do nothing $line -> $pkg"
            ;;
        texlive-FAKE*)
            echo "Skip $line -> $pkg"
            ;;
        texlive*-bin|texlive*-lib)
            echo "Match $line -> $pkg"
            echo "Provides:       $pkg" >> "$SPECFILE"
            echo "Conflicts:      $pkg" >> "$SPECFILE"
            ;;
        texlive*)
            echo "Adding bin pkg $line -> $pkg"
            BINARY_PACKAGES+=($pkg)
            ;;
        *)  # some junk output from 'yum search'
            ;;
    esac
done

for PKG in "${BINARY_PACKAGES[@]}" ; do
    echo "Provides:       $PKG" >> "$SPECFILE"
    echo "Conflicts:      $PKG" >> "$SPECFILE"
done

cat >>"$SPECFILE" <<'FOOTER'

%description

This package just tells rpm/yum/dnf that all texlive packages are
available.  You actually have to install them yourself using the
texlive installer from: http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

%prep

%build

%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}

%files

%doc

%changelog
FOOTER

rpmbuild -bb -v "$SPECFILE"
rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/texlive-FAKE-*.noarch.rpm
rm -f ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/texlive-FAKE-*.noarch.rpm
find ~/rpmbuild -empty -type d -delete