installer-unix-vXX.tar.gz filename changed to install-unix-vXX.tar.gz

[csoneson]

Hello,

when trying to use the setup-tinytex action (with a specific tinytex release version) on the ubuntu-24.04-arm GitHub runners, I ran into what looks like an incorrect link. More precisely (see here for the logs), it does not find a pre-built TinyTeX package, and attempts to install from source. Hence, it downloads the script where the path to the source package is set (using the prefix TINYTEX_INSTALLER="installer-unix").

Judging from the tinytex releases page, it looks like the name of this file changed from installer-unix... to install-unix... between versions 2022.04.04 and 2022.05, and consequently the requested file cannot be found by the script.

Installing the daily version of tinytex works, so it's not really an issue, but I guess it might be if a specific version is required.

[gaborcsardi]

Are you sure that tinytex supports arm linux at all?

[csoneson]

The daily version installed without complaints (logs), and it also seemed to do fine in another workflow involving building and testing an R package (logs). Beyond that, I don't know what the output would look like when it's actually used.

[gaborcsardi]

Well, why not try to run it?

I would think that it does not support arm:
rstudio/tinytex-releases#37

[csoneson]

Looks like it's able to create a pdf. I'll move my comment to the issue linked above, it seems the question about ARM support is not specific to the actions (and as I mentioned, as far as I had tested all worked for me, I just noticed that the file name of the installer had changed and thought I'd bring it up).

[gaborcsardi]

You are right, tinytex seems to work fine on aarch64 Linux. So that's good!

However, the download URL is not up to the setup-tinytex action, we just download the installer script from https://yihui.name/gh/tinytex/tools/install-bin-unix.sh and that URL seems to be correct. Then we run the script. So it seems to me that it is better to report this to tinytex. Thanks!