Re: [Patch] PDF builds on Red Hat for <= 9.6

Hi Tom,

On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 11:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hm ... my RHEL6 machine, which certainly can build the documentation,
> hasn't got either of those:
<snip>

> So evidently Red Hat has refactored their TeX RPMs since then.
> I don't doubt Devrim's conclusions are good for recent Red Hat
> releases,

Right, I tested on Fedora 26, and then on RHEL 7. Sorry.

> but we might want to add some weasel wording saying
> that the required package set has moved around.
>
> Personally, my longstanding habit has been to select the
> "Authoring & Publishing" package set when installing any new
> RHEL or Fedora box, and as far as I can recall, that's always
> Just Worked for building PG docs. Maybe we should mention
> that strategy as a preferable one.

This will install extra packages, which are not needed, but given that very few
people will install this set, I am fine with this solution.

Regards,
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