[tlbuild] Pretesting TeX Live 2024

[Bob Tennent]

On another system, I "initialized from a current installation". Worked fine
until the update; had to wait for the pre-test site to catch up.  You might
want to suggest doing a

../tlmgr path add

as this won't be done automatically.

Very convenient way to update the installation.  Thanks.

Bob

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 6:11 PM Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     I suggest the section "Initializing from a current installation"
>
> Thanks Bob. I just added it a couple days ago. Because I can't give a
> one-size-fits-all command sequence to do the big copy while preserving
> symlinks, I was reluctant to make it too prominent, but I will ponder.
>
>     I'm afraid "whatever your TL-current directory is"
>
> Ok, I'll try to reword. The idea is to copy the directory of the TL
> installation that's getting updated nightly. I guess by default that
> would be /usr/local/texlive/2023 (for the 2024 pretest), but OTOH some
> people (or maybe it's just me) keep /2023 to be the initial release and
> use a different directory for the "up-to-the-minute" install. Hmm.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  -k
>
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