[tex-live] testing infrastructure updates

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 14:34:13 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> As with last year, we have a small repository named tlcritical for
> testing updates to tlmgr itself.  It's updated nightly from the current
> sources.
>
> We'd like to move the accumulated fixes from tlcritical to the main
> tlnet soon, perhaps with tomorrow's (Nov 27) build.  So if anyone is
> willing to be a guinea pig and try out the code, we'd appreciate it.
> See the commands at http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html#testversions for
> how to get it.
>
> The most significant change is that merely listing paper sizes with
> tlmgr paper no longer requires admin privileges.  You may also notice
> the cosmetic change in the timing and statistics report as it downloads.

$ tlmgr --repository=ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --self

seemed to work on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Ubuntu 9.10 (amd64).  Then (similar output
on both machines, so only one version shown):

$ tlmgr --repository=http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
update --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed
tlmgr: package repository
http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
[1/21] auto-remove: getnonfreefonts
[2/21] auto-remove: getnonfreefonts.universal-darwin
[3/21, ??:??/??:??] update: chemstyle [300k] (16070 -> 16187) ... done
[4/21, 00:02/02:18] update: circuitikz [269k] (15878 -> 16183) ... done
[5/21, 00:03/01:49] update: disser [75k] (16036 -> 16188) ... done
[6/21, 00:05/02:41] update: dozenal [249k] (15878 -> 16193) ... done
[7/21, 00:07/02:43] update: economic [832k] (15878 -> 16184) ... done
[8/21, 00:08/01:36] update: expl3 [2328k] (16114 -> 16171) ... The
following files should be removed due to the removal of expl3,
but are part of another package, too.
 texmf-dist/makeindex/latex/expl3/l3doc.ist - latex
done
[9/21, 00:12/01:01] update: fixme [348k] (16141 -> 16169) ... done
[10/21, 00:14/01:06] update: flowfram [788k] (15878 -> 16186) ... done
[11/21, 00:16/01:04] update: getfiledate [105k] (16112 -> 16189) ... done
[12/21, 00:17/01:06] update: hyperref [2764k] (16128 -> 16190) ... done
[13/21, 00:21/00:54] update: latex [8844k] (16114 -> 16172) ... done
[14/21, 00:30/00:36] update: mfpic [1287k] (15878 -> 16182) ... done
[15/21, 00:32/00:36] update: pagerange [82k] (16079 -> 16191) ... done
[16/21, 00:33/00:37] update: perltex.universal-darwin [1k] (15878 ->
16181) ... done
[17/21, 00:34/00:38] update: perltex [301k] (15878 -> 16180) ... done
[18/21, 00:36/00:40] update: xetex-def [5k] (15901 -> 16192) ... done
[19/21, 00:37/00:41] update: xgreek [70k] (15878 -> 16179) ... done
[20/21, 00:38/00:42] update: xpackages [2170k] (15878 -> 16178) ... done
[21/21, 00:41/00:41] update: collection-binextra [1k] (15618 -> 16167) ... done
tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
gala:Python2.6 gwhite$ tlmgr
--repository=http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet update --all
--reinstall-forcibly-removed
tlmgr: package repository ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet
chemstyle: local revision (16187) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16070), not updating.
circuitikz: local revision (16183) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
collection-binextra: local revision (16167) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15618), not updating.
disser: local revision (16188) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16036), not updating.
dozenal: local revision (16193) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
economic: local revision (16184) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
expl3: local revision (16171) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16114), not updating.
fixme: local revision (16169) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16141), not updating.
flowfram: local revision (16186) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
getfiledate: local revision (16189) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16112), not updating.
hyperref: local revision (16190) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16128), not updating.
latex: local revision (16172) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16114), not updating.
mfpic: local revision (16182) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
pagerange: local revision (16191) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (16079), not updating.
perltex: local revision (16180) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
perltex.universal-darwin: local revision (16181) is newer than
revision in ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not
updating.
xetex-def: local revision (16192) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15901), not updating.
xgreek: local revision (16179) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
xpackages: local revision (16178) is newer than revision in
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet (15878), not updating.
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] auto-install: getnonfreefonts.universal-darwin [1k]
Downloading
   ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/getnonfreefonts.universal-darwin.tar.xz
did not succeed, please retry.
/usr/texbin/tlmgr: couldn't install new package getnonfreefonts.universal-darwin
[2/2, 00:01/00:28] auto-install: getnonfreefonts [10k]
Downloading
   ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/getnonfreefonts.tar.xz
did not succeed, please retry.
/usr/texbin/tlmgr: couldn't install new package getnonfreefonts

But using a the local mirror:

$ tlmgr --repository=http://athene/~gwhite/TeX/2009 update --all
--reinstall-forcibly-removed
[... lots of local revision is newer, not updating ]
1/2, ??:??/??:??] auto-install: getnonfreefonts.universal-darwin [1k]
[2/2, 00:00/00:00] auto-install: getnonfreefonts [10k]
tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

>
> Thanks,
> Karl

As always, the efforts of the TL team are greatly appreciated --
without you many
of us would be forced to get Windows and learn to use MS Word!

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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