[tldistro] searching for 2017/texlive.tlpdb

[Marc]

Hi Karl,
can you add the tlpdb files for 2018 as well?

Thank you,
Marc

Am 22.01.2018, 01:19 Uhr, schrieb Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

>     I'm searching for the texlive.tlpdb which corresponds to the snapshot
>     "historic/systems/texlive/2017/".
>
> I've just created texlive-20170524-tlpdb-pruned.tar.gz in that
> directory, which contains the texlive.tlpdb as it appears on the DVD.
> This doesn't have the platforms which are omitted from the DVD for space
> reasons (armel-linux and powerpc-linux), but I hope that does not matter.
>
>     How is this file generated from the sources that exist in this r
>     (http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/2017/)?
>
> Not easily :(.
> (The actual answer is to run the tl-update-tlpdb script which is in the
> devsource tar, but it requires a lot of setup.)
>
> I'll see if I can do better this year. --thanks, karl.