[tlbuild] Maintaining 'custom' installations

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Angelo,

On So, 25 Apr 2010, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Suppose I build current trunk TL2010/dev on Cygwin, and install it with
>
> .../install -custom-bin ...
>
> then how can I maintain the installation, i.e. upgrading it?
>
> In principle that should be done with
>
> tlmgr update -list
> tlmgr update -all

That should work, but the binaries wil l*never* be upgraded.
Did you try it?

There is no upgrade path to new binaries for "custom", best is simply
to copy the files there ...

> Perhaps do we need a 'custom-bin' options also for 'tlmgr'?

What should it do?

Best wishes

Norbert
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