[tex-live] Re: install for compressed CD

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Jun 21 15:20:57 CEST 2004


Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

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>Voila, for "live" image":
>Before displaying menu:
>ls: collection*tpm: No such file...
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fixed

>Preparing list of files works extremelly slowly (e.g. I see Czech/Slovak
>about 1 min., PC 1.8Mhz machine)
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sorry, cant help there yet; needs someone clever to look at the scripts 
to try and speed it up

>Too many errors like:
>/bin/gtar: *Size\: 1048: Cannot stat...
>/bin/gtar: *Size\: 1271: Cannot stat...
>/bin/gtar: *Title\: Base documentation: Cannot stat...
>/bin/gtar: *Title\: Essential programs and files: Cannot stat...
>/bin/gtar: -bin-tex: Cannot stat...
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Whoops. looking at that

>Since install-tl.sh runs texconfig init, we have config files in texmf-var/
>and in texmf-local/ and that's really problem. I'm writing that not because
>I love being show stopper and not because I love starting discussions :(
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this should be easy to fix with a bit of patient testing and examination 
of the scripts
Sebastian



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