[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:19:48 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers:

> And obviously this puts a lot us in bad positions.  If RHEL 6
> (released about a year ago) is sticking to TeXLive 2007, we all have
> problems.  The question is what the community can reasonably do, and
> what developers can be expected to do navigating these issues.

Well I'm a windows user so actually I'm not really affected. But
imho the linux distros should rethink their installation methods and
installation advices. It is absurd that 10 or more distros invest a
lot of main power in making packages when they lack the main power
to keep them up-to-date.  

>> What would you think of a linux distro which would force you to use
>> a virus protection software with signature files five years old?

> And moreover we aren't talking about the signature files are we,
> here?  We're talking about core utilities which are essentially
> disabled after five years.  

No I really meant signature files. You don't have a problems with
the binaries but only with the (text)-files of the latex kernel.
Probably you only need a new latex.ltx, perhaps also a small number
of other files from latex/base (the unpackaged files are in
ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked/)


-- 
Ulrike Fischer