[tex-live] Trying to maintain updated TL installation on Cygwin
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Tue Oct 14 01:28:07 CEST 2008
Hi Angelo,
On Di, 14 Okt 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> tlmgr -location /tmp/texlive/2008 update -all
>
> gives some failure (tar: Permission denied) unpacking
> bin-texlive.tar.lzma for tlmgr.pl and this file was lost in the
> installation...
Bummer. So it seems that even on cygwin open files cannot be
overwritten. This is a problem on W32 (Karl, look! ;-), and I thought
that this might not be a problem on cygwin, but it is.
The problem is that tlmgr is currently running and you try to replace
itself. That works on unix where opened files can be replaced/changed,
but W32 is just to incapable to allow that.
> I think this happens because Cygwin isn't yet in the distro.
No, see above.
> i.e. How can I create package like bin-*.i386-cigwin etc., so that I
> can install TL without the above 'heavy' procedure but simply with:
Not easy, because you have to:
- make a full svn checkout
- add your binaries to Master/bin/i386-cygwin/
- call
Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpsrc2tlpdb -all
- then call
Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers ...with...some..args...
> Is there some place in which this is explained?
Some details are explained in tlpkg/doc/repository-setup.txt
Best wishes
Norbert
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