[tex-live] tl layout on ctan
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 20 12:32:01 CEST 2008
Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw at gust.org.pl> wrote:
[ complete quote since staszek didn't cc the ctan list ]
> I found that ctan nodes have the following layout in tlnet/2008/
> archive/
> install-tl/ *)
> tlpkg/
> install-tl.zip
> install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> README
>
> I think that *) (unpacked install-tl.zip) can be only missleading
> and I'd suggest to remove it. The main reason is that *) contains also
> tlpkg/ directory and if someone downloads (or makes mirror) the whole
> structure, then tries to run install-tl/install-tl[.bat] for installation
> from the local disk, it doesn't work. Sorry for my poor wording of the
> problem, anyway my recommendation is:
> 1. to remove install-tl/ directory from CTAN
>
> 2. for installation from the net just get install-tl.zip or
> install-tl-unx.tar.gz, unpack it and follow the instructions as already
> described in the TeX Live Guide
>
> 3. for installation/update from mirrored archive/*.tar.lzma files
> to make things work we need the following layout on the local disk:
> install-tl/ (from unpacked .zip or .tar.gz)
> install-tl/archive/ (mirrored, containing the updated stuff)
> install-tl/tlpkg/ (mirrored, containing the current database)
>
> OK, seems somehow complicated, but I'd suggest to make mirrors in
> already made install-tl/ directory somewhere on the local disk, then move
> .zip (.tar.gz) to the parrent directory, unpack it, etc.
> All in all, install-tl[.bat] script works as follows:
> ./tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb finds here database
> ./archive/*.tar.lzma finds here compressed packages (otherwise uses
> unpacked files from DVD)
> That was the only way to have the same installer for DVD and compressed
> packages stored on the hard disk. Uff!
i'm not keen to start excluding things from our mirror of texlive: such
things provide endless boring hours of tidying up, ime.
so, short of direct instruction from (in effect) the whole tl team, this
change isn't going to happen here -- it needs to happen on the tug box i
mirror from.
robin
(note that cambridge is tl's gateway into ctan.)
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