[tex-live] Query about 'tar' and some windows/linux scripts

Pablo Alfonso González Luengo pablgonz at educarchile.cl
Thu Nov 15 20:03:34 CET 2018


Hello everyone, a couple of questions (only with the intention of
improving texlive, not criticize):

1. The latest update of Win 10 (October) has installed by default
"tar" and "curl", for future versions of TeXLive, is it possible to
detect the windows version or detect if "tar" is installed in the
system? , to avoid installing it twice :)

2. I know that in the directory
"/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive" there are proper scripts
and necessary for the operation of "texlive", my queries are as
follows (full texlive installed 2018 in win10pro x64 , without cgywin,
as in fedora 29 x64)

when going through the directory in both systems the outputs are:

% fedora
/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
[pablo at fedora texlive] $ ls
allcm.sh         fontinst.sh   rubibtex.sh          texlinks.sh
allneeded.sh     kpsetool.sh   rumakeindex.sh       tlmgrgui.pl
dvi2fax.sh       kpsewhere.sh  rungs.tlu            tlmgr.pl
dvired.sh        lua           test-tlpdb.tlu       uninstall-win32.pl
e2pall.pl        mktexlsr.pl   texconfig-dialog.sh  updmap.pl
fmtutil.pl       NEWS          texconfig.sh         updmap-sys.sh
fmtutil-sys.sh   ps2frag.sh    texconfig-sys.sh     updmap-user.sh
fmtutil-user.sh  pslatex.sh    texconf.tlu          var
% windows 10
/run/media/pablo/driveC/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
[pablo at fedora texlive] $ ls
allcm.sh         fontinst.sh   rubibtex.sh          texlinks.sh
allneeded.sh     kpsetool.sh   rumakeindex.sh       tlmgrgui.pl
dvi2fax.sh       kpsewhere.sh  rungs.tlu            tlmgr.pl
dvired.sh        lua           test-tlpdb.tlu       uninstall-win32.pl
e2pall.pl        mktexlsr.pl   texconfig-dialog.sh  updmap.pl
fmtutil.pl       NEWS          texconfig.sh         updmap-sys.sh
fmtutil-sys.sh   ps2frag.sh    texconfig-sys.sh     updmap-user.sh
fmtutil-user.sh  pslatex.sh    texconf.tlu          var

my questions are the following:

a) Are the ".sh" scripts needed in windows (without using cgywin)?
b) "uninstall-win32.pl" script is necessary in linux? (in windows
perhaps the correct location would be /texlive/2018/tlpkg/installer)
c) What is the correct format of the NEWS file? (It's a mix between
plain text and html apparently)

The best

Pablo


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