tex-live Digest, Vol 265, Issue 36

[Juergen Fenn]

Murray, I think, there is no need to use rsync. Just download in your
webbrowser from http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tlpretest/ -- if you prefer
the Utah mirror -- and go ahead.

Best regards,
Jürgen.

Am 26.02.25 um 23:34 Uhr schrieb 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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