[tlbuild] Backups!

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 25/06/2010 16:03, Angelo Graziosi a écrit :
> Just out of curiosity, why updating with tlmgr, TL2010 saves the 
> 'backups'? what are 'backups'?
> 
Old versions of updated packages, ready to be rolled back should you experience
problems with the newer version. Please look for backup in man tlmgr for more
details.

> I do not remember a similar behavior with TL2008 nor with TL2009 or with 
> TL2010 up to few weeks ago...
> 
Right. It was previously disabled by default, but we felt it was worth enabling
it by default since otherwise people tend to discover this feature too late :-)

Manuel.