tex-live Digest, Vol 265, Issue 36

[Murray Eisenberg]

I'd love to test MacTeX-2025 pretest but confess I'm mystified by just what rsync command to use. 

I tried

	rsync -a --delete --include="mactex-2*" --exclude="*" ftp.math.utah.edu:tlpretest/ ~/Downloads

among other things but get errors of various kinds.

What's the secret?

> On Feb 26, 2025, at 4:37 PM, tex-live-request at tug.org wrote:
> 
> rom: Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu <mailto:koch at uoregon.edu>>
> Subject: Third Complete MacTeX Install Package
> Date: February 26, 2025 at 4:37:36 PM EST
> To: "tex-live at tug.org <mailto:tex-live at tug.org>" <tex-live at tug.org <mailto:tex-live at tug.org>>
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> We created new install packages for BasicTeX and MacTeX.
> The new packages contain prebuilt format files,
> so format files do not need to be
> recreated in the final stage of package install. This saves
> a lot of time at the end of installation. 
> 
> For those who want technical details, the postinstall
> script rebuilds some format files if the user
> wants paper size "a4" instead of "letter". Also
> at the suggestion of Herbert Schulz, the postinstall
> script calls ``fmtutil-sys --missing'' at the end for
> users who have their own non-standard formats.
> 
> Thanks to Bruno Voisin for checking that format files
> are independent of the processor and independent
> of the version of macOS running LaTeX.
> 
> The new packages have just been added to the
> pretest, named 
> 
> 	mactex-basictex-20250226.pkg
> 
> and
> 
> 	mactex-20250226.pkg
> 
> As a test, I installed the latest MacTeX on my
> machine, which has a fast Arm processor. The
> full installation, including both writing files
> and running scripts at the end, took
> 1 minute and 20 seconds.
> 
> We'd appreciate additional testing.
> 
> Dick Koch

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