paper-concept.git - Paper (Towards Long-term and Archivable Reproducibility)

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2018-11-20	Configure script passes if TeX Live was not finalized	Mohammad Akhlaghi	-11/+22
	When there is a problem in creating the final TeX Live installation, the previous version of the pipeline would not understand and just finish! We would later have problems in building the paper. So the following series of steps were taken: to keep the recipes in a shorter and easier to understand way, the steps to install TeX Live are now one rule (that produce `.local/bin/texlive-ready-tlmgr' when its successful), and the steps to install the necessary packages are in another rule (that produce `.local/bin/texlive-ready' when its successful). When control comes back inside configure, if `.local/bin/texlive-ready' isn't there (something failed during the TeX Live installation, or building packages), then the whole TeX Live installation directory (`.local/texlive') will be deleted along with the two output files. This will help ensure that future steps can check the availablility of a working TeX Live in the pipeline.
2018-11-18	Pipeline also installs TeX live and necessary packages	Mohammad Akhlaghi	-11/+14
	Since the final product of the pipeline is a LaTeX-created PDF file, it was necessary to also have LaTeX within the pipeline. With this commit, TeX Live is also built as part of the configuration and all the necessary packages to build the PDF are also installed and mentioned in the paper along with their versions.
2018-11-12	Dependencies built at the start of the pipeline	Mohammad Akhlaghi	-0/+108
	To enable easy/proper reproduction of results, all the high-level dependencies are now built within the pipeline and installed in a fixed directory that is added to the PATH of the Makefile. This includes GNU Bash and GNU Make, which are then used to run the pipeline. The `./configure' script will first build Bash and Make within itself, then it will build All the dependencies are also built to be static. So after they are built, changing of the system's low-level libraries (like C library) won't change the tarballs. Currently the C library and C compiler aren't built within the pipeline, but we'll hopefully add them to the build process also. With this change, we now have full control of the shell and Make that will be used in the pipeline, so we can safely remove some of the generalities we had before.