[tex-live] pretest'11 begin

[George N. White III]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> A first cut at the pretest for TeX Live 2011 is available.
> The story is basically the same as last year.

It looks like another year of hard work has made things more robust and
easier to use:

I tried installing on Ubuntu 11.02 amd64 linux, with an existing TL2010.
The installer worked like a charm, despite several warnings:

There were four warnings during the installation process.
 Here is a summary of warning messages:
   TLDownload::get_file: response error:
     500 Status read failed: Connection reset by peer
   permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
succeed!   Retrying with wget.

This is a huge improvement over previosu years when the installer
didn't recover from network
glitches.

The installer offered to copy my TL2010 settings, but still had paper
set to "a4", so I had to
choose "letter" in the installer.   After the install, simple tex and
latex docs are working, but context is not:

 ../texmf/web2c/texmflua referenced ~/.texlive2010/texmfvar so
"luatools --generate" was using the old user directory.

After fixing that, I'm getting errors building the context formats:

LuaTools | using lua initialization file: cont-en.luc
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/luatools:2734: bad argument
#1 to '(for generator)' (directory metatable expected, got nil)
MTXrun | warning: missing status file, forcing remake
MTXrun | running command: luatools --generate
LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to
'/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux'
LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to
'/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011/bin'
LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011'
LuaTools | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to
'{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}'
LuaTools | fileio: loading configuration file
'/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'
LuaTools | fileio: loading configuration file
/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011/texmf.cnf
LuaTools | fileio: loading configuration file
/mnt/Data/tex/texlive/2011/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf



> http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html has info and notes on changes.
>
> Platforms updated as of this email:
>  {i386,x86_64}-{linux,solaris}
>  {universal,x86_64}-darwin
>  {i386,amd64}-freebsd
>  {alpha,sparc}-linux
>
> Platforms not yet updated as of this email:
>  {i386,amd64}-freebsd
>  i386-netbsd
>  powerpc-{aix,linux}
>  sparc-solaris
>  mips-irix
>
> Best,
> Karl
>



-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia