[tex-live] release versions not compatible

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jul 22 17:51:58 CEST 2011


On 2011-07-22 17:44, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 22 Jul 2011, Michael Blaustein wrote:
>> I tried to install TL 2011 today with "install-tl"  (from  
>> "install-tl-unx.tar.gz" downloaded today).  It failed to run until I  
> 
> Probably you downloaded it from a CTAN mirror that still
> carries the 2010 version of TL. One has to wait a bit until
> all the mirrors are up2date.
> 
>> changed a line in TLConfig.pm from "$ReleaseYear = 2010;" to  
>> "$ReleaseYear = 2011;".
>>
>> Maybe this should be fixed?
> 
> It is fixed, of course ... only your install-tl-unx.tar.gz is old.

As an extra test:

cd /usr/local/texlive/2011
grep -riI 'texlive/2010' *

Does that all look OK?

> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
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