[tex-live] Alternative to .iso?
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Mon Jul 10 19:19:52 CEST 2006
a. hacking away at install-tl.sh until I have a non-interactive,
pre-scripted way of doing the same thing
What I do for my non-interactive test installs is simply feed input to
TL in a here document, see below. I wrote it for myself, so it's
bare-bones, but maybe it will give you an idea.
A non-interactive variant or front-end or option or whatever for
install-tl would be most welcome, e.g., using the usual configure
--prefix and other options. If you feel like hacking up something
distributable, that would be greate.
Recommendations?
For an installation from scratch, my recommendation would be to use
install-tl, not install-pkg. (And I also recommend doing the full
[default] installation, so that you never have to use install-pkg
afterwards, either. :)
(Would an install-pkg of collection-basic be enough to
get up and running?)
I don't know.
BTW, I'm sure the current sources don't install properly. I haven't
updated the tpm's in quite a while.
Happy installing,
Karl
#!/bin/sh
instdir=/home/karl/src/stry
rm -rf $instdir*
## installation from live tree.
cd $HOME/src/Master || exit 1
script=install-live.sh
## installation from live image.
#cd /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/live || exit 1
#script=install-tl.sh
## installation from inst image.
#cd /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/inst || exit 1
#script=install-tl.sh
#script=$tm/install-compr.sh
# basic scheme
min="s
a"
full="s
f"
# gust scheme
gust="s
d"
# xml scheme
xml="s
h"
# symlinks to other directories
symlink="o
l
$instdir.bin
$instdir.man
$instdir.info
r
"
# install windows binaries
w32="b
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
y
n
"
use_instdir="d
1
$instdir
r
"
#debug=--debug
#time bash -vx \
$script $debug <<END_INST
$min
$use_instdir
i
END_INST
status=$?
ls -R $instdir/texmf-var
exit $status
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