[tlbuild] running TL24 pretest on OpenBSD

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl, hi Robert!

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Robert!
> 
>     running eg. x.y at the time when x.(y+2) 
>     has been released is fine, and I know quite a
>     number of people who are doing this.
> 
> I didn't know that. That seemingly makes it sensible for us to include
> openbsd binaries in our upstream TL, for the benefit of such

I agree with that.

>     the binaries with the version number in the name ("openbsd7.4" 
> 
> Good thought.

I also think that this would be better in principle, but it creates a few problems with
updates, though:
	TL2024	openbsd7.4
	TL2025	openbsd7.6
are different archs, so updating in place will not work out of the box.

So I am somehow torn what would be better.


> Makes me think maybe the better answer is to link to binary sets on
> https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html and let users do it that way,
> instead of incorporating them in TL directly. --thanks, karl.

It feels a bit second-class citizen, though.

Best regards

Norbert

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