<div dir="ltr">Hi Karl,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Karl Berry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org" target="_blank">karl@freefriends.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""> recently the server seems to have become flaky<br>
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</span>Nothing has changed wrt <a href="http://tug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tug.org</a>. I surmise any "flakiness" is because<br>
there is (and has always been) a noticeable limit on ftp<br>
connections. I've done that because in my experience web browsers tend<br>
to use up all available ftp connections anyway, and it was untenable.<br>
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be grateful if anyone has any other suggestions.<br>
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</span>Use rsync://<a href="http://tug.org/historic/." rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tug.org/historic/.</a>.. instead of ftp.<br>
Or rsync://<a href="http://rsync.math.utah.edu/historic/." rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rsync.math.utah.edu/<wbr>historic/.</a>.. for Nelson's mirror.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, will give it a try.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But also, I don't understand you're doing. You're installing TL16 But<br>
TL16 is never going to change again. So where does "continuous<br>
integration" come in? And "continuous integration" and "stable" are<br>
polar opposites anyway. I don't get it. And why not use TL17? Oh well,<br>
whatever.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm writing a paper with latex source in a github repo. Whenever anyone (me or collaborator) makes a PR to incorporate some changes, the CI service (I use travis) automatically builds the PDF. So the CI service is a way to check if someone has made changes that break the build, and to avoid any breaking changes getting into the master branch. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm using TL16-final to guarantee that texlive won't change under our feet. I.e., if I run my texlive install script today, it will have the same results as running it in a week or a month. This is very helpful to get all collaborators using exactly the same texlive software versions, and also getting exactly the same installation on the CI server.</div><div><br></div><div>This is similar to pinning dependencies when working on a software or analysis project. E.g., we use conda to install Python for our data analysis work, and we pin versions of all installed Python packages so all team members are using exactly the same software, and everything is consistently reproducible.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
historic/ was mirrored along with all the other texlive content.<br>
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</span>It's not feasible to dump XX more gigabytes of old unchanging stuff onto<br>
<a href="http://ctan.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ctan.org</a> and every ctan mirror. CTAN does not hold old versions of<br>
anything, in general.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fair enough if space is a premium. Just wanted to register that for us, being able to get an exactly reproducible texlive install is very useful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Alistair</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Happy TeXing,<br>
Karl<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Alistair Miles<br>Head of Epidemiological Informatics<br>Centre for Genomics and Global Health <<a href="http://cggh.org" target="_blank">http://cggh.org</a>><br><div dir="ltr">Big Data Institute Building</div><div dir="ltr">Old Road Campus</div><div dir="ltr">Roosevelt Drive</div><div dir="ltr">Oxford</div><span style="font-size:12.8px">OX3 7LF</span></div><div dir="ltr">United Kingdom</div><div dir="ltr">Phone: +44 (0)1865 743596<br>Email: <a href="mailto:alimanfoo@googlemail.com" target="_blank">alimanfoo@googlemail.com</a><br>Web: <a href="http://purl.org/net/aliman" target="_blank">http://a</a><a href="http://limanfoo.github.io/" target="_blank">limanfoo.github.io/</a> <br>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/alimanfoo" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/alimanfoo</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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