[OS X TeX] tlmgr has updates

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Just to try it out, I just ran:
>>
>> tlmgr update --list
>>
>> in the Terminal and it returned the following:
>>
>> loon:~ gray$ tlmgr update --list
>> Asana-Math: local: 7340, source: 10427
>> ametsoc: local: 7340, source: 10433
>> animate: local: 10156, source: 10428
>> bin-pdftools: local: 10324, source: 10426
>> bin-pdftools.universal-darwin: local: 10023, source: 10426
>> bin-tetex: local: 10250, source: 10426
>> bin-tetex.universal-darwin: local: 9317, source: 10426
>> bin-texdoc: local: 10387, source: 10423
>> collection-humanities: local: 10312, source: 10432
>> dvips: local: 9300, source: 10420
>> fontinst: local: 7340, source: 10426
>> gmdoc: local: 10314, source: 10417
>> gmutils: local: 10317, source: 10416
>> gmverb: local: 10315, source: 10418
>> hyperref: local: 10368, source: 10429
>> siunitx: local: 10351, source: 10435
>> xstring: local: 10365, source: 10434
>>
>> So, I am thinking to myself, let's see what it thinks will happen  
>> if I
>> update dvips and I get:
>>
>> loon:~ gray$ tlmgr update --dry-run dvips
>> Installing dvips
>>
>> It's not too informative on this matter. Has anyone done an:
>>
>> sudo tlmgr update --all
>>
>> in the last day or so? If so, did it work without a hitch? Some of  
>> the above
>> stuff is, I believe, rather vital to a working installation and I  
>> am not
>> keen to be the first to try this.
>>
>> Inquiring minds need to know. :-)
>>
>> All the best,
>> Gary
>>
>
>
> I did updates few times with
>
> sudo tlmgr update --all
>
> which allowed me to notice that it not only updates existing packages
> but also installs the new packages.
>
> tlmgr team was advised and K.Berry promised to update documentation.
>
> Those who are not brave can use
>
> sudo tlmgr update --all --dry-run
>
> It will not update installation but feed the inquiring mind :-)
>
>
> Victor
> -- 

Howdy,

One of the updates, as moted by Gary Gray, is dvips. The comment  
basically said that the source had changed location. Should that  
update anything in TeX Live (i.e., MacTeX)?

Another point... if a binary changes will tlmgr handle the update  
correctly? Who is building the universal versions of the software for  
TeX Live? Is that Dick Koch?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)