texlive: factor out tlpdb overrides

2 files changed, 419 insertions, 400 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
index 466d58bf537..96bc6f61e4f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
@@ -34,406 +34,14 @@ let
 
   # the set of TeX Live packages, collections, and schemes; using upstream naming
   overriddenTlpdb = let
-    # most format -> engine links are generated by texlinks according to fmtutil.cnf at combine time
-    # so we remove them from binfiles, and add back the ones texlinks purposefully ignore (e.g. mptopdf)
-    removeFormatLinks = lib.mapAttrs (_: attrs:
-      if (attrs ? formats && attrs ? binfiles)
-      then let formatLinks = lib.catAttrs "name" (lib.filter (f: f.name != f.engine) attrs.formats);
-               binNotFormats = lib.subtractLists formatLinks attrs.binfiles;
-           in if binNotFormats != [] then attrs // { binfiles = binNotFormats; } else removeAttrs attrs [ "binfiles" ]
-      else attrs);
-
-    orig = removeFormatLinks (removeAttrs tlpdb [ "00texlive.config" ]); in
-
-    lib.recursiveUpdate orig rec {
-      #### overrides of texlive.tlpdb
-
-      #### nonstandard script folders
-      context.scriptsFolder = "context/stubs/unix";
-      cyrillic-bin.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
-      fontinst.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
-      mptopdf.scriptsFolder = "context/perl";
-      pdftex.scriptsFolder = "simpdftex";
-      texlive-scripts.scriptsFolder = "texlive";
-      texlive-scripts-extra.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
-      xetex.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
-
-      #### interpreters not detected by looking at the script extensions
-      ctanbib.extraBuildInputs = [ bin.luatex ];
-      de-macro.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
-      match_parens.extraBuildInputs = [ ruby ];
-      optexcount.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
-      pdfbook2.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
-      texlogsieve.extraBuildInputs = [ bin.luatex ];
-
-      #### perl packages
-      crossrefware.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ LWP URI ])) ];
-      ctan-o-mat.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ LWP LWPProtocolHttps ])) ];
-      ctanify.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileCopyRecursive ])) ];
-      ctanupload.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ HTMLFormatter WWWMechanize ])) ];
-      exceltex.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ SpreadsheetParseExcel ])) ];
-      latex-git-log.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ IPCSystemSimple ])) ];
-      latexindent.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileHomeDir LogDispatch LogLog4perl UnicodeLineBreak YAMLTiny ])) ];
-      pax.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileWhich ])) ];
-      ptex-fontmaps.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
-      purifyeps.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileWhich ])) ];
-      svn-multi.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ TimeDate ])) ];
-      texdoctk.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
-      ulqda.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ DigestSHA1 ])) ];
-
-      #### python packages
-      pythontex.extraBuildInputs = [ (python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pygments ])) ];
-
-      #### other runtime PATH dependencies
-      a2ping.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      bibexport.extraBuildInputs = [ gnugrep ];
-      checklistings.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
-      cjk-gs-integrate.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      context.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ruby ];
-      cyrillic-bin.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused ];
-      dtxgen.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnumake zip ];
-      dviljk.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
-      epspdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      epstopdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      fragmaster.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      installfont.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnused ];
-      latexfileversion.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep gnused ];
-      listings-ext.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt ];
-      ltxfileinfo.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnused ];
-      ltximg.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      luaotfload.extraBuildInputs = [ ncurses ];
-      makeindex.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused ];
-      pagelayout.extraBuildInputs = [ gnused ncurses ];
-      pdfcrop.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      pdftex.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ghostscript_headless gnused ];
-      pdftex-quiet.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
-      pdfxup.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ghostscript_headless ];
-      pkfix-helper.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      ps2eps.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      pst2pdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      tex4ht.extraBuildInputs = [ ruby ];
-      texlive-scripts.extraBuildInputs = [ gnused ];
-      texlive-scripts-extra.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils findutils ghostscript_headless gnused ];
-      thumbpdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
-      tpic2pdftex.extraBuildInputs = [ gawk ];
-      wordcount.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep ];
-      xdvi.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep ];
-      xindy.extraBuildInputs = [ gzip ];
-
-      #### adjustments to binaries
-      # TODO patch the scripts from bin.* directly in bin.* instead of here
-
-      # mptopdf is a format link, but not generated by texlinks
-      # so we add it back to binfiles to generate it from mkPkgBin
-      mptopdf.binfiles = (orig.mptopdf.binfiles or []) ++ [ "mptopdf" ];
-
-      # remove man
-      texlive-scripts.binfiles = lib.remove "man" orig.texlive-scripts.binfiles;
-
-      # upmendex is "TODO" in bin.nix
-      uptex.binfiles = lib.remove "upmendex" orig.uptex.binfiles;
-
-      # xindy is broken on some platforms unfortunately
-      xindy.binfiles = if bin ? xindy
-        then lib.subtractLists [ "xindy.mem" "xindy.run" ] orig.xindy.binfiles
-        else [];
-
-      #### additional symlinks
-      cluttex.binlinks = {
-        cllualatex = "cluttex";
-        clxelatex = "cluttex";
-      };
-
-      epstopdf.binlinks.repstopdf = "epstopdf";
-      pdfcrop.binlinks.rpdfcrop = "pdfcrop";
-
-      ptex.binlinks = {
-        pdvitomp = bin.metapost + "/bin/pdvitomp";
-        pmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/pmpost";
-        r-pmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/r-pmpost";
-      };
-
-      texdef.binlinks = {
-        latexdef = "texdef";
-      };
-
-      texlive-scripts.binlinks = {
-        mktexfmt = "fmtutil";
-        texhash = (lib.last tl."texlive.infra".pkgs) + "/bin/mktexlsr";
-      };
-
-      texlive-scripts-extra.binlinks = {
-        allec = "allcm";
-        kpsepath = "kpsetool";
-        kpsexpand = "kpsetool";
-      };
-
-      # metapost binaries are in bin.metapost instead of bin.core
-      uptex.binlinks = {
-        r-upmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/r-upmpost";
-        updvitomp = bin.metapost + "/bin/updvitomp";
-        upmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/upmpost";
-      };
-
-      #### add PATH dependencies without wrappers
-      # TODO deduplicate this code
-      a2ping.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '6i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath a2ping.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/a2ping
-      '';
-
-      bibexport.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath bibexport.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/bibexport
-      '';
-
-      checklistings.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath checklistings.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/checklistings
-      '';
-
-      cjk-gs-integrate.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath cjk-gs-integrate.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/cjk-gs-integrate
-      '';
-
-      context.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{contextjit,mtxrunjit}
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ ruby ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/texexec
-      '';
-
-      cyrillic-bin.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath cyrillic-bin.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/rumakeindex
-      '';
-
-      dtxgen.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath dtxgen.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dtxgen
-      '';
-
-      dviljk.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath dviljk.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dvihp
-      '';
-
-      epstopdf.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath epstopdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/epstopdf
-      '';
-
-      fragmaster.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath fragmaster.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/fragmaster
-      '';
-
-      installfont.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath installfont.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/installfont-tl
-      '';
-
-      latexfileversion.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath latexfileversion.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/latexfileversion
-      '';
-
-      listings-ext.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath listings-ext.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/listings-ext.sh
-      '';
-
-      ltxfileinfo.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath ltxfileinfo.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/ltxfileinfo
-      '';
-
-      ltximg.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath ltximg.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/ltximg
-      '';
-
-      luaotfload.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2ios.setenv("PATH","${lib.makeBinPath luaotfload.extraBuildInputs}" .. (os.getenv("PATH") and ":" .. os.getenv("PATH") or ""))' "$out"/bin/luaotfload-tool
-      '';
-
-      makeindex.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath makeindex.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/mkindex
-      '';
-
-      pagelayout.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pagelayoutapi
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ ncurses ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/textestvis
-      '';
-
-      pdfcrop.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pdfcrop.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pdfcrop
-      '';
-
-      pdftex.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i -e '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' \
-          -e 's!^distillerpath="/usr/local/bin"$!distillerpath="${lib.makeBinPath [ ghostscript_headless ]}"!' \
-          "$out"/bin/simpdftex
-      '';
-
-      pdftex-quiet.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath pdftex-quiet.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pdftex-quiet
-      '';
-
-      pdfxup.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath pdfxup.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pdfxup
-      '';
-
-      pkfix-helper.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pkfix-helper.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pkfix-helper
-      '';
-
-      ps2eps.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath ps2eps.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/ps2eps
-      '';
-
-      pst2pdf.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pst2pdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pst2pdf
-      '';
-
-      tex4ht.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i -e '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath tex4ht.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' -e 's/\\rubyCall//g;' "$out"/bin/htcontext
-      '';
-
-      texlive-scripts.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath texlive-scripts.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{fmtutil-user,mktexmf,mktexpk,mktextfm,updmap-user}
-      '';
-
-      thumbpdf.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath thumbpdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/thumbpdf
-      '';
-
-      tpic2pdftex.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath tpic2pdftex.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/tpic2pdftex
-      '';
-
-      wordcount.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath wordcount.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/wordcount
-      '';
-
-      # TODO patch in bin.xdvi
-      xdvi.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath xdvi.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/xdvi
-      '';
-
-      xindy.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath xindy.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/{texindy,xindy}
-      '';
-
-      #### other script fixes
-      # misc tab and python3 fixes
-      ebong.postFixup = ''
-        sed -Ei 's/import sre/import re/; s/file\(/open(/g; s/\t/        /g; s/print +(.*)$/print(\1)/g' "$out"/bin/ebong
-      '';
-
-      # find files in script directory, not binary directory
-      # add runtime dependencies to PATH
-      epspdf.postFixup = ''
-        sed -i '2ios.setenv("PATH","${lib.makeBinPath epspdf.extraBuildInputs}" .. (os.getenv("PATH") and ":" .. os.getenv("PATH") or ""))' "$out"/bin/epspdf
-        substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/epspdftk --replace '[info script]' "\"$scriptsFolder/epspdftk.tcl\""
-      '';
-
-      # find files in script directory, not in binary directory
-      latexindent.postFixup = ''
-        substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/latexindent --replace 'use FindBin;' "BEGIN { \$0 = '$scriptsFolder' . '/latexindent.pl'; }; use FindBin;"
-      '';
-
-      # Patch texlinks.sh back to 2015 version;
-      # otherwise some bin/ links break, e.g. xe(la)tex.
-      # add runtime dependencies to PATH
-      texlive-scripts-extra.postFixup = ''
-        patch -R "$out"/bin/texlinks < '${./texlinks.diff}'
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{allcm,dvired,mkocp,ps2frag}
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils findutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/allneeded
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ghostscript_headless ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dvi2fax
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{kpsetool,texconfig,texconfig-sys}
-        sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/texconfig-dialog
-      '';
-
-      # patch interpreter
-      texosquery.postFixup = ''
-        substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/* --replace java "$interpJava"
-      '';
-
-      # hardcode revision numbers (since texlive.infra, tlshell are not in either system or user texlive.tlpdb)
-      tlshell.postFixup = ''
-        substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/tlshell \
-          --replace '[dict get $::pkgs texlive.infra localrev]' '${toString orig."texlive.infra".revision}' \
-          --replace '[dict get $::pkgs tlshell localrev]' '${toString orig.tlshell.revision}'
-      '';
-      #### dependency changes
-
-      # it seems to need it to transform fonts
-      xdvi.deps = (orig.xdvi.deps or []) ++  [ "metafont" ];
-
-      # remove dependency-heavy packages from the basic collections
-      collection-basic.deps = lib.subtractLists [ "metafont" "xdvi" ] orig.collection-basic.deps;
-
-      # add them elsewhere so that collections cover all packages
-      collection-metapost.deps = orig.collection-metapost.deps ++ [ "metafont" ];
-      collection-plaingeneric.deps = orig.collection-plaingeneric.deps ++ [ "xdvi" ];
-
-      #### misc
-
-      # tlpdb lists license as "unknown", but the README says lppl13: http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/arabic/arabi-add/README
-      arabi-add.license = [  "lppl13c" ];
-
-      # TODO: remove this when updating to texlive-2023, npp-for-context is no longer in texlive
-      # tlpdb lists license as "noinfo", but it's gpl3: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp
-      npp-for-context.license = [  "gpl3Only" ];
-
-      texdoc = {
-        extraRevision = "-tlpdb${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
-        extraVersion = "-tlpdb-${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
-
-        extraNativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles ];
-
-        # build Data.tlpdb.lua (part of the 'tlType == "run"' package)
-        postUnpack = ''
-          if [[ -f "$out"/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu ]]; then
-            unxz --stdout "${tlpdbxz}" > texlive.tlpdb
-
-            # create dummy doc file to ensure that texdoc does not return an error
-            mkdir -p support/texdoc
-            touch support/texdoc/NEWS
-
-            TEXMFCNF="${bin.core}"/share/texmf-dist/web2c TEXMF="$out" TEXDOCS=. TEXMFVAR=. \
-              "${bin.luatex}"/bin/texlua "$out"/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu \
-              -c texlive_tlpdb=texlive.tlpdb -lM texdoc
-
-            cp texdoc/cache-tlpdb.lua "$out"/scripts/texdoc/Data.tlpdb.lua
-          fi
-        '';
-
-        # install zsh completion
-        postFixup = ''
-          TEXMFCNF="${bin.core}"/share/texmf-dist/web2c TEXMF="$scriptsFolder/../.." \
-            texlua "$out"/bin/texdoc --print-completion zsh > "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
-          substituteInPlace "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc \
-            --replace 'compdef __texdoc texdoc' '#compdef texdoc' \
-            --replace '$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFROOT)/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb' '$(kpsewhich Data.tlpdb.lua)' \
-            --replace '/^name[^.]*$/ {print $2}' '/^  \["[^"]*"\] = {$/ { print substr($1,3,length($1)-4) }'
-          echo '__texdoc' >> "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
-          installShellCompletion --zsh "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
-        '';
-      };
-
-      "texlive.infra" = {
-        extraRevision = ".tlpdb${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
-        extraVersion = "-tlpdb-${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
-
-        # add license of tlmgr and TeXLive::* perl packages and of bin.core
-        license = [ "gpl2Plus" ] ++ lib.toList bin.core.meta.license.shortName ++ orig."texlive.infra".license or [ ];
-
-        scriptsFolder = "texlive";
-        extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused gnupg (lib.last tl.kpathsea.pkgs) (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
-
-        # make tlmgr believe it can use kpsewhich to evaluate TEXMFROOT
-        postFixup = ''
-          substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/tlmgr \
-            --replace 'if (-r "$bindir/$kpsewhichname")' 'if (1)'
-          sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath [ gnupg ]}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/tlmgr
-          sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused (lib.last tl.kpathsea.pkgs) ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/mktexlsr
-        '';
-
-        # add minimal texlive.tlpdb
-        postUnpack = ''
-          if [[ "$tlType" == "tlpkg" ]] ; then
-            xzcat "${tlpdbxz}" | sed -n -e '/^name \(00texlive.config\|00texlive.installation\)$/,/^$/p' > "$out"/texlive.tlpdb
-          fi
-        '';
-      };
-    }; # overrides
+    overrides = import ./tlpdb-overrides.nix {
+      inherit
+        lib bin tlpdb tlpdbxz tl
+        installShellFiles
+        coreutils findutils gawk getopt ghostscript_headless gnugrep
+        gnumake gnupg gnused gzip ncurses perl python3 ruby zip;
+    };
+  in overrides tlpdb;
 
   version = {
     # day of the snapshot being taken
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d2ce46ed47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,411 @@
+{ lib, tlpdb, bin, tlpdbxz, tl
+, installShellFiles
+, coreutils, findutils, gawk, getopt, ghostscript_headless, gnugrep
+, gnumake, gnupg, gnused, gzip, ncurses, perl, python3, ruby, zip
+}:
+
+oldTlpdb:
+
+let
+  tlpdbVersion = tlpdb."00texlive.config";
+
+    # most format -> engine links are generated by texlinks according to fmtutil.cnf at combine time
+    # so we remove them from binfiles, and add back the ones texlinks purposefully ignore (e.g. mptopdf)
+    removeFormatLinks = lib.mapAttrs (_: attrs:
+      if (attrs ? formats && attrs ? binfiles)
+      then let formatLinks = lib.catAttrs "name" (lib.filter (f: f.name != f.engine) attrs.formats);
+               binNotFormats = lib.subtractLists formatLinks attrs.binfiles;
+           in if binNotFormats != [] then attrs // { binfiles = binNotFormats; } else removeAttrs attrs [ "binfiles" ]
+      else attrs);
+
+    orig = removeFormatLinks (removeAttrs oldTlpdb [ "00texlive.config" ]);
+
+in lib.recursiveUpdate orig rec {
+  #### overrides of texlive.tlpdb
+
+  #### nonstandard script folders
+  context.scriptsFolder = "context/stubs/unix";
+  cyrillic-bin.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
+  fontinst.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
+  mptopdf.scriptsFolder = "context/perl";
+  pdftex.scriptsFolder = "simpdftex";
+  texlive-scripts.scriptsFolder = "texlive";
+  texlive-scripts-extra.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
+  xetex.scriptsFolder = "texlive-extra";
+
+  #### interpreters not detected by looking at the script extensions
+  ctanbib.extraBuildInputs = [ bin.luatex ];
+  de-macro.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
+  match_parens.extraBuildInputs = [ ruby ];
+  optexcount.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
+  pdfbook2.extraBuildInputs = [ python3 ];
+  texlogsieve.extraBuildInputs = [ bin.luatex ];
+
+  #### perl packages
+  crossrefware.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ LWP URI ])) ];
+  ctan-o-mat.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ LWP LWPProtocolHttps ])) ];
+  ctanify.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileCopyRecursive ])) ];
+  ctanupload.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ HTMLFormatter WWWMechanize ])) ];
+  exceltex.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ SpreadsheetParseExcel ])) ];
+  latex-git-log.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ IPCSystemSimple ])) ];
+  latexindent.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileHomeDir LogDispatch LogLog4perl UnicodeLineBreak YAMLTiny ])) ];
+  pax.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileWhich ])) ];
+  ptex-fontmaps.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
+  purifyeps.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ FileWhich ])) ];
+  svn-multi.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ TimeDate ])) ];
+  texdoctk.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
+  ulqda.extraBuildInputs = [ (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ DigestSHA1 ])) ];
+
+  #### python packages
+  pythontex.extraBuildInputs = [ (python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pygments ])) ];
+
+  #### other runtime PATH dependencies
+  a2ping.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  bibexport.extraBuildInputs = [ gnugrep ];
+  checklistings.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
+  cjk-gs-integrate.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  context.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ruby ];
+  cyrillic-bin.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused ];
+  dtxgen.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnumake zip ];
+  dviljk.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
+  epspdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  epstopdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  fragmaster.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  installfont.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnused ];
+  latexfileversion.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep gnused ];
+  listings-ext.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt ];
+  ltxfileinfo.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils getopt gnused ];
+  ltximg.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  luaotfload.extraBuildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+  makeindex.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused ];
+  pagelayout.extraBuildInputs = [ gnused ncurses ];
+  pdfcrop.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  pdftex.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ghostscript_headless gnused ];
+  pdftex-quiet.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ];
+  pdfxup.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils ghostscript_headless ];
+  pkfix-helper.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  ps2eps.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  pst2pdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  tex4ht.extraBuildInputs = [ ruby ];
+  texlive-scripts.extraBuildInputs = [ gnused ];
+  texlive-scripts-extra.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils findutils ghostscript_headless gnused ];
+  thumbpdf.extraBuildInputs = [ ghostscript_headless ];
+  tpic2pdftex.extraBuildInputs = [ gawk ];
+  wordcount.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep ];
+  xdvi.extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnugrep ];
+  xindy.extraBuildInputs = [ gzip ];
+
+  #### adjustments to binaries
+  # TODO patch the scripts from bin.* directly in bin.* instead of here
+
+  # mptopdf is a format link, but not generated by texlinks
+  # so we add it back to binfiles to generate it from mkPkgBin
+  mptopdf.binfiles = (orig.mptopdf.binfiles or []) ++ [ "mptopdf" ];
+
+  # remove man
+  texlive-scripts.binfiles = lib.remove "man" orig.texlive-scripts.binfiles;
+
+  # upmendex is "TODO" in bin.nix
+  uptex.binfiles = lib.remove "upmendex" orig.uptex.binfiles;
+
+  # xindy is broken on some platforms unfortunately
+  xindy.binfiles = if bin ? xindy
+    then lib.subtractLists [ "xindy.mem" "xindy.run" ] orig.xindy.binfiles
+    else [];
+
+  #### additional symlinks
+  cluttex.binlinks = {
+    cllualatex = "cluttex";
+    clxelatex = "cluttex";
+  };
+
+  epstopdf.binlinks.repstopdf = "epstopdf";
+  pdfcrop.binlinks.rpdfcrop = "pdfcrop";
+
+  ptex.binlinks = {
+    pdvitomp = bin.metapost + "/bin/pdvitomp";
+    pmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/pmpost";
+    r-pmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/r-pmpost";
+  };
+
+  texdef.binlinks = {
+    latexdef = "texdef";
+  };
+
+  texlive-scripts.binlinks = {
+    mktexfmt = "fmtutil";
+    texhash = (lib.last tl."texlive.infra".pkgs) + "/bin/mktexlsr";
+  };
+
+  texlive-scripts-extra.binlinks = {
+    allec = "allcm";
+    kpsepath = "kpsetool";
+    kpsexpand = "kpsetool";
+  };
+
+  # metapost binaries are in bin.metapost instead of bin.core
+  uptex.binlinks = {
+    r-upmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/r-upmpost";
+    updvitomp = bin.metapost + "/bin/updvitomp";
+    upmpost = bin.metapost + "/bin/upmpost";
+  };
+
+  #### add PATH dependencies without wrappers
+  # TODO deduplicate this code
+  a2ping.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '6i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath a2ping.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/a2ping
+  '';
+
+  bibexport.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath bibexport.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/bibexport
+  '';
+
+  checklistings.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath checklistings.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/checklistings
+  '';
+
+  cjk-gs-integrate.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath cjk-gs-integrate.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/cjk-gs-integrate
+  '';
+
+  context.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{contextjit,mtxrunjit}
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ ruby ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/texexec
+  '';
+
+  cyrillic-bin.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath cyrillic-bin.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/rumakeindex
+  '';
+
+  dtxgen.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath dtxgen.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dtxgen
+  '';
+
+  dviljk.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath dviljk.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dvihp
+  '';
+
+  epstopdf.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath epstopdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/epstopdf
+  '';
+
+  fragmaster.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath fragmaster.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/fragmaster
+  '';
+
+  installfont.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath installfont.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/installfont-tl
+  '';
+
+  latexfileversion.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath latexfileversion.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/latexfileversion
+  '';
+
+  listings-ext.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath listings-ext.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/listings-ext.sh
+  '';
+
+  ltxfileinfo.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath ltxfileinfo.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/ltxfileinfo
+  '';
+
+  ltximg.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath ltximg.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/ltximg
+  '';
+
+  luaotfload.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2ios.setenv("PATH","${lib.makeBinPath luaotfload.extraBuildInputs}" .. (os.getenv("PATH") and ":" .. os.getenv("PATH") or ""))' "$out"/bin/luaotfload-tool
+  '';
+
+  makeindex.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath makeindex.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/mkindex
+  '';
+
+  pagelayout.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pagelayoutapi
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ ncurses ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/textestvis
+  '';
+
+  pdfcrop.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pdfcrop.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pdfcrop
+  '';
+
+  pdftex.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i -e '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' \
+      -e 's!^distillerpath="/usr/local/bin"$!distillerpath="${lib.makeBinPath [ ghostscript_headless ]}"!' \
+      "$out"/bin/simpdftex
+  '';
+
+  pdftex-quiet.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath pdftex-quiet.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pdftex-quiet
+  '';
+
+  pdfxup.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath pdfxup.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/pdfxup
+  '';
+
+  pkfix-helper.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pkfix-helper.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pkfix-helper
+  '';
+
+  ps2eps.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath ps2eps.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/ps2eps
+  '';
+
+  pst2pdf.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath pst2pdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/pst2pdf
+  '';
+
+  tex4ht.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i -e '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath tex4ht.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' -e 's/\\rubyCall//g;' "$out"/bin/htcontext
+  '';
+
+  texlive-scripts.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath texlive-scripts.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{fmtutil-user,mktexmf,mktexpk,mktextfm,updmap-user}
+  '';
+
+  thumbpdf.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath thumbpdf.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/thumbpdf
+  '';
+
+  tpic2pdftex.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath tpic2pdftex.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/tpic2pdftex
+  '';
+
+  wordcount.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath wordcount.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/wordcount
+  '';
+
+  # TODO patch in bin.xdvi
+  xdvi.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath xdvi.extraBuildInputs}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/xdvi
+  '';
+
+  xindy.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath xindy.extraBuildInputs}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/{texindy,xindy}
+  '';
+
+  #### other script fixes
+  # misc tab and python3 fixes
+  ebong.postFixup = ''
+    sed -Ei 's/import sre/import re/; s/file\(/open(/g; s/\t/        /g; s/print +(.*)$/print(\1)/g' "$out"/bin/ebong
+  '';
+
+  # find files in script directory, not binary directory
+  # add runtime dependencies to PATH
+  epspdf.postFixup = ''
+    sed -i '2ios.setenv("PATH","${lib.makeBinPath epspdf.extraBuildInputs}" .. (os.getenv("PATH") and ":" .. os.getenv("PATH") or ""))' "$out"/bin/epspdf
+    substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/epspdftk --replace '[info script]' "\"$scriptsFolder/epspdftk.tcl\""
+  '';
+
+  # find files in script directory, not in binary directory
+  latexindent.postFixup = ''
+    substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/latexindent --replace 'use FindBin;' "BEGIN { \$0 = '$scriptsFolder' . '/latexindent.pl'; }; use FindBin;"
+  '';
+
+  # Patch texlinks.sh back to 2015 version;
+  # otherwise some bin/ links break, e.g. xe(la)tex.
+  # add runtime dependencies to PATH
+  texlive-scripts-extra.postFixup = ''
+    patch -R "$out"/bin/texlinks < '${./texlinks.diff}'
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{allcm,dvired,mkocp,ps2frag}
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils findutils ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/allneeded
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils ghostscript_headless ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/dvi2fax
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/{kpsetool,texconfig,texconfig-sys}
+    sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/texconfig-dialog
+  '';
+
+  # patch interpreter
+  texosquery.postFixup = ''
+    substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/* --replace java "$interpJava"
+  '';
+
+  # hardcode revision numbers (since texlive.infra, tlshell are not in either system or user texlive.tlpdb)
+  tlshell.postFixup = ''
+    substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/tlshell \
+      --replace '[dict get $::pkgs texlive.infra localrev]' '${toString orig."texlive.infra".revision}' \
+      --replace '[dict get $::pkgs tlshell localrev]' '${toString orig.tlshell.revision}'
+  '';
+  #### dependency changes
+
+  # it seems to need it to transform fonts
+  xdvi.deps = (orig.xdvi.deps or []) ++  [ "metafont" ];
+
+  # remove dependency-heavy packages from the basic collections
+  collection-basic.deps = lib.subtractLists [ "metafont" "xdvi" ] orig.collection-basic.deps;
+
+  # add them elsewhere so that collections cover all packages
+  collection-metapost.deps = orig.collection-metapost.deps ++ [ "metafont" ];
+  collection-plaingeneric.deps = orig.collection-plaingeneric.deps ++ [ "xdvi" ];
+
+  #### misc
+
+  # tlpdb lists license as "unknown", but the README says lppl13: http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/arabic/arabi-add/README
+  arabi-add.license = [  "lppl13c" ];
+
+  # TODO: remove this when updating to texlive-2023, npp-for-context is no longer in texlive
+  # tlpdb lists license as "noinfo", but it's gpl3: https://github.com/luigiScarso/context-npp
+  npp-for-context.license = [  "gpl3Only" ];
+
+  texdoc = {
+    extraRevision = "-tlpdb${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
+    extraVersion = "-tlpdb-${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
+
+    extraNativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles ];
+
+    # build Data.tlpdb.lua (part of the 'tlType == "run"' package)
+    postUnpack = ''
+      if [[ -f "$out"/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu ]]; then
+        unxz --stdout "${tlpdbxz}" > texlive.tlpdb
+
+        # create dummy doc file to ensure that texdoc does not return an error
+        mkdir -p support/texdoc
+        touch support/texdoc/NEWS
+
+        TEXMFCNF="${bin.core}"/share/texmf-dist/web2c TEXMF="$out" TEXDOCS=. TEXMFVAR=. \
+          "${bin.luatex}"/bin/texlua "$out"/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu \
+          -c texlive_tlpdb=texlive.tlpdb -lM texdoc
+
+        cp texdoc/cache-tlpdb.lua "$out"/scripts/texdoc/Data.tlpdb.lua
+      fi
+    '';
+
+    # install zsh completion
+    postFixup = ''
+      TEXMFCNF="${bin.core}"/share/texmf-dist/web2c TEXMF="$scriptsFolder/../.." \
+        texlua "$out"/bin/texdoc --print-completion zsh > "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
+      substituteInPlace "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc \
+        --replace 'compdef __texdoc texdoc' '#compdef texdoc' \
+        --replace '$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFROOT)/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb' '$(kpsewhich Data.tlpdb.lua)' \
+        --replace '/^name[^.]*$/ {print $2}' '/^  \["[^"]*"\] = {$/ { print substr($1,3,length($1)-4) }'
+      echo '__texdoc' >> "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
+      installShellCompletion --zsh "$TMPDIR"/_texdoc
+    '';
+  };
+
+  "texlive.infra" = {
+    extraRevision = ".tlpdb${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
+    extraVersion = "-tlpdb-${toString tlpdbVersion.revision}";
+
+    # add license of tlmgr and TeXLive::* perl packages and of bin.core
+    license = [ "gpl2Plus" ] ++ lib.toList bin.core.meta.license.shortName ++ orig."texlive.infra".license or [ ];
+
+    scriptsFolder = "texlive";
+    extraBuildInputs = [ coreutils gnused gnupg (lib.last tl.kpathsea.pkgs) (perl.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ Tk ])) ];
+
+    # make tlmgr believe it can use kpsewhich to evaluate TEXMFROOT
+    postFixup = ''
+      substituteInPlace "$out"/bin/tlmgr \
+        --replace 'if (-r "$bindir/$kpsewhichname")' 'if (1)'
+      sed -i '2i$ENV{PATH}='"'"'${lib.makeBinPath [ gnupg ]}'"'"' . ($ENV{PATH} ? ":$ENV{PATH}" : '"'''"');' "$out"/bin/tlmgr
+      sed -i '2iPATH="${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused (lib.last tl.kpathsea.pkgs) ]}''${PATH:+:$PATH}"' "$out"/bin/mktexlsr
+    '';
+
+    # add minimal texlive.tlpdb
+    postUnpack = ''
+      if [[ "$tlType" == "tlpkg" ]] ; then
+        xzcat "${tlpdbxz}" | sed -n -e '/^name \(00texlive.config\|00texlive.installation\)$/,/^$/p' > "$out"/texlive.tlpdb
+      fi
+    '';
+  };
+}