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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hallo Reinhard —<br>
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cite="mid:24640.1757.74417.712151@gargle.gargle.HOWL">
<pre wrap="">Hello Siep and Phil,
if you use rsync in order to create a local copy there is an archive/
directory in the same directory as the installer. In this case I
would expect that the installer assumes that it's run from a CD or DVD
and uses the archive/ directory as a package source. This means that
there is no need to specify any repository.</pre>
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I am willing to believe that, of course, but my concern is that, in
the past, I have performed what I <i>thought </i>was an install
from my local repository, only to find later that it was installing
from the network. Now that I have FTTC that is no longer the issue
it once was, but what I would <i>really</i> like is to be able to
use the documented-but-seemingly-dysfunctional "install-tl-windows
-select-repository" and to be offered the choice of installing from
a mirror of my choice <i><b>or</b></i> from my local repository. <br>
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Siep explained, on 3rd inst., <br>
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<pre wrap="">The mirror list is still the regular mirror list and has not been
adjusted for pretest. Therefore select-repository does not work
during pretest.</pre>
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but what was unclear to me until a few moments ago was why, even if
"[t]he mirror list is still the regular mirror list and has not been
adjusted for pretest", the pre-test installer cannot offer
"C:/TeX/Live/2021/Pre-test (Local repository)" in addition to the
six continents. In fact, it can — what I have <i>finally</i>
discovered is that the offer of "C:/TeX/Live/2021/Pre-test (Local
repository)" is contingent on one typing :<br>
<ul>
<li> install-tl-windows.<i><b>bat </b></i>-select-repository</li>
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and not just :<br>
<ul>
<li> install-tl-windows<i><b> </b></i>-select-repository</li>
</ul>
<p>It seems to me that this is a serious design error, to have two
files with identical names, but with different extensions, both of
which are executable, in the same directory. Why not, for
example, rename the executable to anything <i><b>other </b></i>than
"install-tl-windows" ? As it is, at the moment it is only too
easy to believe that "install-tl-windows<i><b> </b></i>-select-repository"
should have the desired effect, whereas in fact only
"install-tl-windows<i><b>.bat</b></i><i><b> </b></i>-select-repository"
will do so.<br>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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