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From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: To update or not to update - that is the question...
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:20:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130318092057.GU9268@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFBQp-t60vtnPDZ9SeFFBPgzYzW0VjJF5OzSD-3yj8p7isgQ1g@mail.gmail.com>


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On 2013–03–17 Jonathan Barchi wrote:

> Just curious, does this repo stay up to date the the "official"
> updates from garden?

I assume that's the goal of the repo, but there is no guarantee that
it does.

> I've been using (basically) the scripts suggested on the "minimals"
> wiki page to update when new betas are released, but it would be great
> to be able to this with git instead.

The minimals (or Standalone distribution) contain more than just
that repository. Among other things it provides the binaries, an
update mechanism, fonts, third-party modules and MetaPost modules.
Check your context directory, the repo provides the contents of
texmf-context.

Sure, you can take a current Standalone distribution and replace the
shipped texmf-context with the git repo (which is very handy for
testing and bisecting BTW) but it's not usable for production and
will break after a while. If the other files (especially LuaTeX and
3rd party modules) get out of sync you'll run into errors no one
else can reproduce.

Marco

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-02  0:11 Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-02 10:29 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-17 14:04   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-02 11:04 ` Marco Patzer
2013-03-17 14:05   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-17 23:22     ` Jonathan Barchi
2013-03-18  9:20       ` Marco Patzer [this message]

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