[tex-live] List for announcements

[Zdenek Wagner]

2013/4/17 Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:14:40PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> Hi Zdenek,
>>
>> On Mi, 17 Apr 2013, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> > What seems to me as a usefu feature is a slight modification in tlmgr.
>> > When I try to update, it says "no updates available" but it would be
>> > nice if it could report "TL 2012 is now frozen" or something like
>> > that.
>>
>> Actually, that should have happened.
>>
>> Karl, maybe you can add by hand the frozen tag in the tlnet tlpdb
>> so that this happens. What you should see is:
>>
>> ------------
>> TeX Live 2012 is frozen forever and will no
>> longer be updated.  This happens in preparation for a new release.
>>
>> If you're interested in helping to pretest the new release (when
>> pretests are available), please read http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html.
>> Otherwise, just wait, and the new release will be ready in due time.
>> ------------
>
> This is indeed what I get if I run tlmgr update in TL12:
>
> mac131:~> tlmgr update --list
> TeX Live 2012 is frozen forever and will no
> longer be updated.  This happens in preparation for a new release.
>
> If you're interested in helping to pretest the new release (when
> pretests are available), please read http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html.
> Otherwise, just wait, and the new release will be ready in due time.
> tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.mirrorcatalogs.com/systems/texlive/tlnet
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2012/tlpkg/backups
> tlmgr: no updates available
>
> --
> Ettore

I have tried at my home computer and I see the same output as at my office:

$ tlmgr update -all
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2012/tlpkg/backups
skipping forcibly removed package gnu-freefont
tlmgr: no updates available

(gnu-freefont was removed by me because I always use the development
version for testing)


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