[tex-live] tlmgr testing

Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Fri Oct 3 00:03:55 CEST 2008



Karl Berry wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For those willing to be guinea pigs, we've put together a simpler way to
> update tlmgr and the related critical packages from the development
> sources, to avoid having to get everything from svn itself.
> 
> There's a new location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical which contains
> the critical packages (bin-texlive and texlive.infra), updated nightly
> from svn.  The basic test would be:
>   tlmgr -location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --list
> 
> To actually do the update, use --all instead of --list, as usual.

And one says much the same, starting and ending with

> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tlmgr -location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --all
> 12many cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> ANUfinalexam cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> AkkTeX cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical



> zefonts cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> ziffer cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> zwgetfdate cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> UPDATER has been created, please execute tlpkg\installer\updater.bat



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