[tex-live] Upgrade from texlive 2016

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:51:29 +0200
martin at dante.de wrote:

> I accidently did that by just updating TL 2016 (tlmgr update --all
> --self) after 2017 had been released. 
> 
> To be honest: I did not like that result as it happened without
> warning.
> 

Yes, for those who want to keep older texlive installations it is bad
to get this result without prior warning.

> Best regards
> Martin
> 
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> Am 15. Juli 2017, 12:41, um 12:41, Nikos Platis <nplatis at gmail.com>
> schrieb:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Some recent years there was a procedure (unsupported but for me
> >always successful) for upgrading TeXLive from a previous year
> >installation (for
> >Unix). The respective page (https://www.tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html)
> >is
> >the one from last year, when it was not possible to upgrade TeXLive
> >2015 to
> >2016.
> >
> >Have there been any tests for upgrading TeXLive 2016 to 2017?
> >
> >Thanks!  
> 
>