<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><code style="" class="">When I update texlive use:<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">tlmgr update --self --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">and I've noticed that always creates files of the form:<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">texlive.tlpdb.be17af42b38bde18ed074dc333c8326e<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">(cached copy of the package database from the remote repository)<br style="" class="">read the directory /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,5M sep 8 21:02 texlive.tlpdb<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1M sep 8 20:59 texlive.tlpdb.0872092f6696e877f0db8b140f6b82ef<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1M sep 8 21:00
texlive.tlpdb.10bfabb073fb4dc387aa4b563fc7e922<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1M sep 8 20:54 texlive.tlpdb.263e706cf88b699ee0b429510c653597<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1M sep 8 20:54 texlive.tlpdb.56bd326fc068dc3ca63361d5aa4c1e69<br style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1M sep 8 20:41 texlive.tlpdb.b43c1a834bd53df8dbee9dab6afe9b17<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">and now comes the question: What should happen to tlmgr option to only keep a cached copy?<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">If I upgrade 20 times I have 20 copies and is not ideal.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Greetings <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Pablo<br style="" class=""></code><span style="" class=""></span><div style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>