[tlbuild] linked scripts when script names only differ by their extensions

Robert Alessi alessi at robertalessi.net
Fri Mar 22 18:16:46 CET 2024


On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 06:23:50PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Part of having a custom binary set is having to figure out how to do the
> > updates. I don't know of any general process that's been developed for
> > that. Sorry. -k
> 
> There is none.
> The only idea I had but never came around is:
> - remember the original source directory used for --custom-bin
> - do something like rsync or similar to update files from it
> But it all sounds extremely shacky to me, and not really a win for the
> user.

Right, not very user-friendly.  My idea was to provide a dedicated
script and some explanations in the README file.  Hope it works out.

https://sr.ht/~ralessi/texlive-openbsd/#package-installation-and-updates

-- Robert


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