[MacPorts] #58615: texlive-bin-extra @50853_1+doc: texdoc cannot find texlive.tlpdb

[MacPorts]

#58615: texlive-bin-extra @50853_1+doc: texdoc cannot find texlive.tlpdb
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  Reporter:  nstanger           |      Owner:  drkp
      Type:  defect             |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal             |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports              |    Version:  2.5.4
Resolution:                     |   Keywords:
      Port:  texlive-bin-extra  |
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Comment (by dliessi):

 It is **not** a bug in upstream texdoc, but a packaging error in MacPorts!

 As per the original description of this ticket:

 > The error message itself comes from line 588 of texdoclib-search.tlu
 [...].
 > On lines lines 683–704 it looks like the script searches for a local
 package database file, and when it can’t find one, calls
 get_tlpinfo_from_dist() to find the version supplied with the distribution
 [...], and that doesn’t exist.

 Indeed `get_tlpinfo_from_dist` tries to load `data_tlpdb_name`, which is
 defined in `texdoclib-const.tlu` as `texdoc/Data.tlpdb.lua`.
 That file does not exists in MacPorts.

 The port should provide either `texlive.tlpdb` or `Data.tlpdb.lua`.
 Instructions to generate the latter are provided in texdoc's
 [https://github.com/TeX-Live/texdoc/blob/master/README.md#generating-a
 -pre-hashed-cache-file README.md] file (I think that a copy of
 `texlive.tlpdb` is needed to generate the file).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58615#comment:13>
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