[tex-live] Suggestion for tlmgr

[Norbert Preining]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sven Bovin wrote:
> Would it be possible to have tlmgr issue a message to the user when the repository has been frozen ? Something like 'Thank you for using TexLive XXXX. Our repository is now frozen since we now concentrate on bringing your TexLive (XXXX+1)' ?

Will be implemented for tlmgr in TL2009, so when 2009 is frozen it will
spit out messages like that.

For 2008 we would need to update the tlmgr itself for that, so it cannot be
done.

Best wishes

Norbert

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