[tldistro] directories customization

[stes@PANDORA.BE]

Hi,

When I run install-tl I can change the directories:

Directories customization:

 <1> TEXDIR:         /usr
     main tree:      /usr/texmf-dist

 <2> TEXMFLOCAL:     /usr/texmf-local
 <3> TEXMFSYSVAR:    /usr/texmf-var
 <4> TEXMFSYSCONFIG: /usr/texmf-config

 <5> TEXMFVAR:       ~/.texlive2020/texmf-var
 <6> TEXMFCONFIG:    ~/.texlive2020/texmf-config
 <7> TEXMFHOME:      ~/texmf

However when I save a profile :


Actions:
 <I> start installation to hard disk
 <P> save installation profile to 'texlive.profile' and exit
 <H> help
 <Q> quit

Enter command: P
Installation profile saved to 'texlive.profile', exiting.



The resulting texlive.profile still has a /usr/local for
tlpdbopt_sys_bin /usr/local/bin

what is tlpdbopt ?

Also how to change that setting to use /usr ?

And most importantly, in the install-tl tool when I select HELP <H>,
I get an error (no help file ?) and there seems to be no option to LOAD an texlive.profile file.

I'd like to prepare a texlive.profile and then load the settings again from that file.

David Stes


# texlive.profile written on Fri Jan 29 08:29:44 2021 UTC
# It will NOT be updated and reflects only the
# installation profile at installation time.
selected_scheme scheme-basic
TEXDIR /usr
TEXMFCONFIG ~/.texlive2020/texmf-config
TEXMFHOME ~/texmf
TEXMFLOCAL /usr/texmf-local
TEXMFSYSCONFIG /usr/texmf-config
TEXMFSYSVAR /usr/texmf-var
TEXMFVAR ~/.texlive2020/texmf-var
binary_i386-solaris 1
instopt_adjustpath 0
instopt_adjustrepo 1
instopt_letter 0
instopt_portable 0
instopt_write18_restricted 1
tlpdbopt_autobackup 1
tlpdbopt_backupdir tlpkg/backups
tlpdbopt_create_formats 1
tlpdbopt_desktop_integration 1
tlpdbopt_file_assocs 1
tlpdbopt_generate_updmap 0
tlpdbopt_install_docfiles 1
tlpdbopt_install_srcfiles 1
tlpdbopt_post_code 1
tlpdbopt_sys_bin /usr/local/bin
tlpdbopt_sys_info /usr/local/share/info
tlpdbopt_sys_man /usr/local/share/man
tlpdbopt_w32_multi_user 1