[tex-live] tlmgr --self

[T T]

On 30/07/2009, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, T T wrote:
>> > Because:
>> >        --no-remove
>> >                makes tlmgr ignore remove tags
>> >        --no-auto-install
>> >                makes tlmgr ignore auto-install tags
>> >        --no-forcibly-removed
>> >                makes tlmgr ignore forcibly-removed tags
>>
>> I admit that I don't like this naming too much either,
>> --no-forcibly-removed might be consistent but is quite confusing.
>
> Better proposal?

I don't know if it's better but here we go:

--no-remove
--no-install
--with-removed

or if you prefer longer versions:

--no-auto-remove
--no-auto-install
--with-forcibly-removed

Other ideas for forcibly removed:

--include-removed / --include-missing / --with-missing

None of the above really "speaks" to me but for self explanatory
option one would need something like this:

--include-manually-forcibly-removed-and missing-due-to-no-auto-install

Yuck!

>> Norbert, could you hold on for a while with patches to tlmgr.pl, at
>
> Yes, finished with that. I am working on something different that will
> not be submitted for long long time ;-)

Sounds mysterious ;)

> Sorry Tomek.

No problem, you can resume with full speed now ;) I just committed my
patches (r. 14500). Most notable changes for users:

- 'tlmgr update --self --all' is now fully suported on win32 (i.e. it
restarts tlmgr to complete updates if necessary)
- 'tlmgr update --self --all --dry-run' is now also supported (on all
platforms) with simulated restart
- 'tlmgr -v update --self ...'  will activate debug support also in
the win32 batch updater

It should be available tomorrow.

Cheers,

Tomek