[tex-live] CD images

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Jun 11 19:16:24 CEST 2003


In message <200306111339.h5BDdKE12754 at f7.net> karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
>     Since the final layout of the CD differs from what we have in the depot,
>     I'd suggest just making another directory at the same level as
>     Master and Build for the contents of CD1, CD2 (DVD?). It can avoid
> 
> Why are we making the DVD and the CD different?  Trying to keep them in
> sync sounds painful. 

there is no sync; there are all products built from a master source

 Why not just put the compressed files on the dvd as
> well, so they can be the same?  How many people will really care about
> running TL live from the DVD?  Seems vanishingly small to me.  

but reading things on the DVD is worthwhile

> For that matter, I've always wondered why Master exists at all, and
> isn't just created by running make in Build.

fai  point. because all that the "make" would do is "cp -r" :-}

sebastian


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