[tex-live] Tutorial for setting up own TeX Live package repositories seems outdated

[David Carlisle]

On 19 February 2018 at 10:11, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 February 2018 at 00:35, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Ok, I did  svn propset svn:eol-style LF
>> on tlpkg/installer/config.guess (among others).
>>
>> I don't understand why no Cygwin (etc.) users had this problem
>> before. But whatever. --thanks, karl.
>
> I don't think that we have that many users setting up their own TL
> package repository on a server running cygwin.
>
> (It could also be that cygwin's own subversion sets EOL differently
> than when the user does a checkout with a "native" subversion
> installation or that users have different defaults set, but that's
> just a super blind guess.)

yes if you use cygwin's svn then it uses the line endings specified in
the cygwin setup (which is almost always
a single #10) and cygwin's bash will understand the same line endings.

David



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> Mojca