[tex-live] tpm files, function="buildFormat"

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Sebastian!

On Mit, 20 Jul 2005, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> >    <TPM:Installation>
> >      <TPM:Execute function="BuildFormat"/>
> >    </TPM:Installation>
> >to all the bin-XXXXX programs generating formats,

IN fact I added parameter="XXXX", too.

> excellent! I am rerunning the tpm-update to
> check these survive OK

Not checked in, as I said. 

> >QUESTION:
> >* Where should I put these files? Up to now I have them in 
> >	/Master/texmf/formats/...
> >  which seems not to be a good location, but I couldn't think about
> >  a better one for now.
> >
> texmf/web2c is what I would have expected

Hmm, I want to have a separate directory as for the languages. These
snippets do not actually belong to texmf RUNTIME system, it is only
present for installation procedures.

So do you have another suggestion, otherwise I will put them really into
texmf/web2c

Best wishes

Norbert

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