Today's update

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Feb 26, 2020, at 8:14 AM, Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2/26/20 8:00 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 4:15 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    which is why I was puzzled about the xelatex format not
>>>    being rebuilt.
>>> 
>>> If it happens again, what would help to debug is to know which packages
>>> got updated. (The complete list.) I don't know if it's easy to find that
>>> in TLU ... --thanks, karl.
>>> 
>> Howdy,
>> Just to note: This morning xelatex was rebuilt (along with xetex, etc.) but `byengine' while all the other format updates were `byfmt'. Of course there was an explicit update of xetex.
> 
> Same here, less than two hours ago.
> 
> But first I ran tlmgr with --dry-run. It said it was going to rebuild xelatex and xelatex-dev formats, *and didn't mention any engine*.
> 
> Then with the actual run it rebuilt xetex engine but no xelatex formats.
> 
> I attach the log.
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Axel
> <tlmgr 2020-02-26 06h30m.txt>

Howdy,

I believe `byengine' means that all formats associated with that engine (xetex in this case) get rebuilt. All the xetex related engines were rebuilt; xetex, xelatex, xelatex-dev, etc.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)