[tex-live] TL2008 packages release TL2009 release

[Leo]

On 2009-08-11 14:50 +0100, T T wrote:
[...]
> I have a devilish idea for those who are not afraid of
> challenge---convert TL'08 to TL'09. Here's what perhaps could possibly
> work:
>
> 1) Update TL'08 with update-tlmgr-latest.[exe/sh] from TL'09 (on
> windows it might be necessary to update tlperl as well---just copy it
> from install-tl.zip/tlpkg/tlperl)
>
> 2) Recreate package database:
>    tlmgr recreate-tlpdb > [tlroot]/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
> (this will reset all options to their dafault values, you might want
> to change them before attempting any updates).
>
> Caveats: uninstaller might not work any more, a ton of other
> misbehaviours possible.
>
> WARNING!
>
> The above procedure might brick your TL installation, launch rockets
> and eat your children. Use at your own risk (but please let us know if
> this works).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomek
>

On 2009-08-11 14:55 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 11 Aug 2009, T T wrote:
>> The above procedure might brick your TL installation, launch rockets
>
> There are some problems:
> - bin-texlive package is gone, no idea what will happen. But removing
>   it should work because all the files are mentioned in the new
>   texlive.infra
>
> - some collections have been renamed, changed
>
> Beh, someone might try and then call
> 	tlmgr update --all --self
> and see what is happening ;-)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert

On 2009-08-11 13:37 +0100, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
[...]
>> Can tl2008 users pull packages from tl2009 repo?
>> 
> No, some things have changed in the packaging (most visible point is switching
> from lzma to xz compression) that makes it incompatible.
>
> Maybe next year it will be possible to switch from TL09 to TL10 with tlmgr
> (maybe), but for this year you will have to go through the "normal" procedure of
> 1. Installing TL09
> 2. Make sure it works.
> 3. Delete your old TL08 if point 2 was OK.
>
> Manuel.

Thank you all for the useful information. I am prepared to install
tl2009 directly ;)

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