Bundles for TeX Live >= 2024

[marcelroed]

Hi! I've been enjoying Tectonic, but I can't find resources on how to update to later versions of TeX Live.

The default bundle set up when I run init specifies version https://data1.fullyjustified.net/tlextras-2022.0r0.tar, but I would like at least version 2024 or hopefully 2025. Are there any hosts that mirror a newer bundle? I need a public url so I can use this for reproducible builds in a shared repo I am working on.

Thanks!

[Yendric]

I don't know if anyone is hosting this publicly, but (for now) you could do so yourself by creating the bundle using the instructions provided in the repo: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master/bundles

[Joecstarr]

I'm having some issues building my own bundle. The tectonic release for nix doesn't seem to have the bundle create command available. Is this intended/known?

~ ❯ tectonic -X bundle --help
bundle 0.15.0
Commands relating to this document’s TeX file bundle

USAGE:
    bundle [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -w, --web-bundle <url>    Use this URL to find resource files instead of the default

SUBCOMMANDS:
    cat       Dump the contents of a file in the bundle
    help      Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    search    Filter the list of filenames contained in the bundle

~ ❯ tectonic -X bundle create
error: The subcommand 'create' wasn't recognized
	Did you mean 'cat'?

If you believe you received this message in error, try re-running with 'bundle -- create'

USAGE:
    bundle [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

For more information try --help

[doronbehar]

I'm having some issues building my own bundle. The tectonic release for nix doesn't seem to have the bundle create command available. Is this intended/known?

I think this feature was not yet released. See:

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