diff --git a/app-text/texlive_core/patches/texlive_core-2024.patchset b/app-text/texlive_core/patches/texlive_core-2024.2.patchset
similarity index 100%
rename from app-text/texlive_core/patches/texlive_core-2024.patchset
rename to app-text/texlive_core/patches/texlive_core-2024.2.patchset
diff --git a/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.recipe b/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
similarity index 96%
rename from app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.recipe
rename to app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
index dc084a31e..fbc68feaf 100644
--- a/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.recipe
+++ b/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
@@ -7,10 +7,19 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://tug.org/texlive/"
 COPYRIGHT="1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 REVISION="1"
-fullVersion=20240312
-SOURCE_URI="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/$portVersion/texlive-$fullVersion-source.tar.xz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="7b6d87cf01661670fac45c93126bed97b9843139ed510f975d047ea938b6fe96"
-SOURCE_DIR="texlive-$fullVersion-source"
+
+#fullVersion is for full releases from a tarball once a year
+#fullVersion=20240312
+#SOURCE_URI="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/$portVersion/texlive-$fullVersion-source.tar.xz"
+#CHECKSUM_SHA256="7b6d87cf01661670fac45c93126bed97b9843139ed510f975d047ea938b6fe96"
+#SOURCE_DIR="texlive-$fullVersion-source"
+
+#svnVersion is for intermediate bug fix updates during the year
+svnVersion="svn70897"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/archive/refs/tags/$svnVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="a8e1f537febe4b4a5f98ee3e7fd4b6007421e66951ad0e27b8624e6ef6ce3a53"
+SOURCE_DIR="texlive-source-$svnVersion"
+
 PATCHES="texlive_core-$portVersion.patchset"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
@@ -28,7 +37,7 @@ libtexluaVersionCompat="$libtexluaVersion compat >= ${libtexluaVersion%%.*}"
 libtexluajitVersionCompat="$libtexluajitVersion compat >= ${libtexluajitVersion%%.*}"
 
 PROVIDES="
-	texlive_core$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= $portVersion
+	texlive_core$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= ${portVersion%%.*}
 	cmd:a2ping
 	cmd:a5toa4
 	cmd:adhocfilelist