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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/11/2016 22:34, Norbert Preining
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
too many emails, so just a few lines:
* profiles have never been ment to be a general purpose tool for
installation, but mostly to enable restart of interrupted ones.
I know they are used a lot now.
* I will improve profile handling in the installer:
- better support to create them from the installer
- warning/error when wrong keys are included
- short explanation of syntax of the file</pre>
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Thank you - that would be perfect.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I don't know what a scheme is.
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Sorry, if you don't know what a scheme is then I am a bit
surprised - did you ever install TeX Live yourselft?</pre>
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Yes, many times - I am simply missing some terminology. I will
research what a "scheme" is.<br>
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<pre wrap="">It may only be one line to fix it, but the effect is absolute failure - almost none of my docs built any more due to suddenly missing packages. Also, the failure was completely silent at the installation phase (the installation should have error'd out rather than just ignoring the removed collection) and I had to update and rebuild all 6 build server configurations in order to get usable systems again.
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It is not an absolute failure only because your documents do not compile.
You asked to install a set of collection and they were dutifully installed.</pre>
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Sorry but, no, they weren't! collection-science was silently <i>not</i>
installed, and it contained packages upon which I relied. An
announcement on a mailing list that this would cease to work would
have given me notice to update my profiles at a quiet and convenient
time.<br>
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As it was, I only noticed this because I had to do an emergency
rebuild of the server profiles for another reason, then the TeXLive
rebuild didn't work as expected and this occurred at the worst
possible time!<br>
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I concede that doing an install-latest-from-web in what is supposed
to be a reproducible build server image is not ideal, and that's my
fault. Eventually I want to have proper self-contained installs.
Eventually, I will probably end up archiving TeXLive 201n locally
and rebuild from that. If install-tl-unx.tar.gz were versioned then
I could at least download a specific, known-good version and avoid
exposing myself to breaking changes like this, but the web download
doesn't seem to work that way.<br>
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Anyway, I'm glad that the cause has been determined and things will
improve a little in the future.<br>
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Thanks for your help.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Tom<br>
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