[tex-live] TL'10 pretest trial

Vladimir Lomov lomov.vl at gmail.com
Wed May 26 08:50:46 CEST 2010


** Taco Hoekwater [2010-05-26 07:09:54 +0200]:

> Karl Berry wrote:
>>     need to do anything, and each user wanting to use MkIV would need to generate
>>     her own cache herself. Is that ok for you?

>> It's what we've done before, and what I expected to do this year.
>> I'd rather not attempt to call luatools --generate as part of install-tl.

>>     ~/.texlive2010 already contains two subdirectories: texmf-var and texmf-config.

>> I propose $TEXMFVAR/texmf-var/luatex-cache.  I see no advantage to
>> proliferating directories under ~/.texliveYYYY.  And texmf-var is
>> already supposed to be only stuff that can be regenerated, which this is.

> This means setting TEXMFCACHE to $TEXMFVAR/texmf-var ; the
> 'luatex-cache' part is added automatically by luatools.
Then it should be $TEXMFVAR because it expands to
$HOME/.texliveYEAR/texmf-var
so
TEXMFCACHE=$TEXMFVAR
will be correct then.

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