From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41800 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:21:23 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810806200921p1af4ca96l8f7442b810a5092f@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.com> <4853760A.20109@elvenkind.com> <200806140725.12219.john@wexfordpress.com> <326847810806191240y180c1e90tc92a8039a85ca804@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00806200003s57f528aahf6729ee562297a11@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806200117y3a98e1ddlb6594b5c088ce83d@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806200521j77fd17cbne4654d9ceceeb895@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0806200527g4d14d25ag7644b7f9b4887cb@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806200639hfb10979o11625179fb3cc193@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00806200731t6d1d7fd3mf3ff2d1e7995f7f9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213980764 2520 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 16:52:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:52:44 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 20 18:53:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9jrT-00041G-PV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039B21FBE8; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31128-01-8; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:51:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5032F1FC78; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:21:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42081FC78 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28048-01-2 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:21:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7361FB8E for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:21:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u40so57844ugc.50 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.59.14 with SMTP id h14mr3155432eba.189.1213978883220; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.136.3 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00806200731t6d1d7fd3mf3ff2d1e7995f7f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41800 Archived-At: Thanks Mojca. > If you are lucky, it puts the files where you want them to be, but > since every installation works its own way, it's hard to predict where > to put them; >... > Of course you can. But if you happen to update TL package, your > additions will be destroyed. And you need to rebuild all the other > formats. It's not so harmful. > > Supposed to relates to "your system would be supposed to update its > own packages", but for ConTeXt it obviously doesn't do. >... > If you destroy (overwrite) the old binary :) - if you dowload the > wrong binary, then you have neither working. Generally, it should work > OK. Caramba! Tricky, tricky stuff. FYI, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation_hints mentions, under the "Updating" paragraph, (after calling ctxtools --updatecontext) "then you have to regenerate the format(s)...", while you wrote > All it does is: > - download the zip > - unzip it > - make the formats I wonder, for the record, ... Is there any (installation) process which enables ctxtools to update ConTeXt without risking to #@!&X% it up ? Side-question: "But if you happen to update TL package" - what does TL stand for ? Best, Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________