[tex-live] Windows installer of Tex Live 2012 pretest points still to Tex Live 2011 repository?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-06-23 at 09:15:39 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

 > 2012/6/23 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
 > > On 2012-06-22 at 14:50:47 +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
 > >
 > >  > I downloaded the install-tl.zip archive, unzipped it (into
 > >  > install-tl-20120611) and tried to run any of install-tl.bat or
 > >  > install-tl-advanced.bat.
 > >  >
 > >  > Both complained that the respository is at still at 2011.
 > >
 > > If you want to install the pretest release you have to tell the
 > > installer to download from a server providing the pretest repository.
 > >
 > >  http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
 > >
 > > This looks inconvenient at a first glance.  But the TL-2011 stuff on
 > > CTAN mirrors will be replaced by TL-2012 very soon.
 > >
 > > For those who are not interested in beta testing, it's very
 > > convenient.  They only have to wait until TL-2012 is released.
 > > Furthermore, it seems that TL-2011 users don't have to install TL-2012
 > > from scratch.  "tlmgr update --all" should be sufficient for the
 > > upgrade.
 > >
 > Interesting. I definitely want to have both 2011 and 2012 on my
 > computer. Since I had not time to try the pretest, does it mean that I
 > will be able to do:
 > 
 > cd /usr/local/texlive
 > cp --rec 2011 2012
 > 
 > then set PATH to 2012 and update by tlmgr?

Yes.  You have to run "tlmgr update --self" first.  This replaces
TLConfig.pm by the 2012 version.

You can even upgrade from 2010 if you change $ReleaseYear in
TLConfig.pm manually. 

Regards,
  Reinhard

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