[tlbuild] Configure issues with texlive-20091107

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 13 Jan 2010, Angel Tsankov wrote:
>> 	texmf
>> 	texmf-dist
>> 	texmf-var
>> 	texmf-config
>> (at least, optionally:)
>
> Are these directories contained in texlive-20080822-texmf.tar.lzma?  If  
> not, what is in this archive?  And how about  
> texlive-20080822-extra.tar.lzma and texlive-20080822-bin.tar.lzma?

I guess you can check that out yourself. I have no intention to 
do this work for you, download the files, and unpack them...
Is it so hard with a current tar you can do
	tar -tvf ....
and it will auto-detect the compression method.

>> I recommend *FIRST* get accustomed to the TeX Live system and *THEN*
>> start trying to package things ...
>
> Can you suggest a way to 'unpack' texlive2008-20080822.iso as a regular  
> user?

isomaster?
fuseiso?
...

Are you seriously asking what to do with a .iso image?

Best wishes

Norbert
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