sys_bin option is set to a GHA runner dir in TinyTeX bundle

[cderv]

@yihui

See this when installing on Arch Linux

# /root/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr option sys_bin
Destination for symlinks for binaries (sys_bin): /home/runner/bin

The installation was done with quarto install tool tinytex

This means that when doing tlmgr path add with the monthly bundle version, then /home/runner is created. I don't think that is right.

I am seeing that we do a post install configuration on TinyTeX:
https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex/blob/main/R/install.R#L461-L480

Is this to solve such issues ? Or was it for something else ?

is the fact that tlmgr option sys_bin is set to a value from the GH runner a limitation of our bundles ?

Maybe it is known and already documented but somehow I was suprised.

[cderv]

For the context, we get /home/runner/bin because we do configure to use $HOME/bin and it gets resolved as absolute.
The config is still there in the bundle we release. Can we clean this maybe ? Do we need to reset it somehow ? 🤔

[yihui]

Yes, the installation script should run tlmgr option sys_bin after installation, to set the correct bin path. I did it in both R functions (as you mentioned above) and the shell script, e.g., https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex/blob/5f0cb70e02877f46d806447a362c58ff7dc2748f/tools/install-bin-unix.sh#L63-L68 It sounds like quarto didn't do it?

[cderv]

It sounds like quarto didn't do it?

Quarto does not do it anymore since a choice as been made to not add to PATH by default. It will do it when quarto install tool tinytex --update-path is run only. I add a quick discussion about that with @dragonstyle just earlier today. I was wondering if we should do it anyway or not...

[yihui]

I think you should, since it's harmless when you don't add to PATH, and is definitely necessary when you do.