Update Docker Hub image (2.9.6980 -> 2.9.7050)

[skyfrk]

Hello there! Could you please release a fresh image to the Docker Hub?

I tried to use the docker hub image to build my document using: docker run --rm -ti -v C:\some\path:/miktex/work miktex/miktex pdflatex root.tex

But it failed while downloading some packages:

starting package maintenance...
installation directory: /miktex/.miktex/texmfs/install
package repository: http://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
package repository digest: 0051892e82e2f6a3249012fd042a9b51
going to download 8630983 bytes
going to install 29 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading http://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/l3kernel.tar.lzma...
8.63 MB, 424.85 Mbit/s
extracting files from l3kernel.tar.lzma...
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(/miktex/.miktex/texmfs/install/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
(/miktex/.miktex/texmfs/install/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex
======================================================================
starting package maintenance...
installation directory: /miktex/.miktex/texmfs/install
package repository: http://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
package repository digest: 0051892e82e2f6a3249012fd042a9b51
going to download 236231 bytes
going to install 11 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading http://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/unicode-data.tar.lzma...
0.24 MB, 620.44 Mbit/s
extracting files from unicode-data.tar.lzma...
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)

! LaTeX Error: File `l3backend-pdfmode.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name:

I think that this is the problem because building the document just worked fine when I built the docker image on my own.

Building the docker image on my own resulted in MiKTeX v2.9.7050 living inside the container instead of v2.9.6980.

Have a nice day! 😃

[gw0]

Yes, a fresh official rebuild would be nice. Latest tag 2.9.6990 has some issues, like:

ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.6, expected version 3.5.
This means that your biber (2.12) and biblatex (3.13a) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.

[nanmu42]

I built an unofficial one, which might help: https://hub.docker.com/r/nanmu42/miktex-docker .

[gw0]

@nanmu42 Have you tested your unofficial version? Because your version gives the same error, but with different versions:

ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.6, expected version 3.7.
This means that your biber (2.14) and biblatex (3.13a) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.

[nanmu42]

Could you provide a minimal example to reproduce this error?

[gw0]

After performing a clean reinstall, cleaning all auxiliary files, and some debugging, I managed to get both Docker images to work. Because TeX packages are constantly changing and MiKTeX downloads them on demand, one always has to update MiKTeX repositories before using any image.

The solution is to use the official Docker image miktex/miktex like that:

$ sudo docker run -it -v $(pwd):/miktex/work miktex/miktex bash
$ mpm --admin --update
$ latexmk example.tex

Consider adding mpm --admin --update to documentation. Cleaning /miktex/.miktex and all auxiliary files is also a good troubleshooting step.

If anyone is interested in a trivial example that uses XeLaTeX and Biber to compile to PDF:

% example.tex
\documentclass[a4paper,english]{article}
\RequirePackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{example.bib}
\begin{document}
This is some text.
\cite{Foo2019}
\end{document}

% example.bib
@misc{Foo2019,
author = {Foo, Bar},
title = {{Learning to foo the bar}},
year = {2019}
}

# .latexmkrc
$bibtex_fudge=0;
# use xelatex - xdv -> pdf - not working due to bugs in 4.61
$pdf_mode=5;
&alt_tex_cmds;

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[yM1ndst0rM]

Bumping for visibility: An update of the official build on dockerhub is very appreciated

[rose-a]

Yep, the docker hub image is outdated since August!