[tex-live] TeXLive Manager (numbers)

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:18:25PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The question appeared on another (MacOSX) forum
> > 
> >  /usr/local/texlive/2008/tlpkg/tlpobj/fontinst.tlpobj
> > 
> > ends up with catalogue-version 1.928
> > 
> > while
> > 
> > /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/fontinst/base/fontinst.sty
> > 
> > contains line
> > 
> > \def\fontinstversion{1.927}
> 
> that's not the latest version.
> 
> (it's 4 months older than the current one ... and i suppose it's been
> that way for 4 years!)

And TL's installation of fontinst contains garbage:
  TDS:tex/fontinst/misc/glyphbox.log
  TDS:tex/fontinst/misc/glyphbox.dvi
(Also the DVI file is broken, the command bytes are messed up.)

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>