Hi Jesse,

> 1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as
> you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext?  Are those equivalent?

You might read the underneath thread from here on, as well as its later
posts...
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080620.070341.aca1fbd9.en.html

Maybe this short one also...
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080621.153103.9fcfc856.en.html


Hope this helps,
Alan


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jesse Alama <alama@stanford.edu> wrote:
> "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Alama wrote:
>>> "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes:
>>>
>>> The basis for my own comments in this thread do not lie in a preference
>>> for graphical tools, but rather for a straightforward way to stay
>>> up-to-date with the whole of ConTeXt in a way that ctxtools does not
>>> currently provide.  A command-line interface for that would be great,
>>> and so would a graphical tool.
>>
>> That's not a general solution, but if you need it for yourself, you
>> can put the following to some file and execute it whenever you want:
>>
>> rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/beta/
>> /path/to/your/texmf/
>> rsync -av rsync://
contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/bin/
>> /path/to/your/binaries/
>> etc.
>>
>> There's a limited set of folders that you need to update, and it will
>> only update new files, you don't need to update everything.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as
> you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext?  Are those equivalent?
>
> 2. It looks like the subdirectories that I want are
>
>  common
>  context
>  luatex
>  man
>  metapost
>
> if I want to follow only luatex development.  (The only subdirectories
> that aren't in that list are mswin, which doesn't apply to me, and
> pdftex and xetex.)  I'd like to just put this on top of my TeXLive
> (2007) distribution.  Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary
> directory, what's the next step?  Do I need to rebuild the ConTeXt
> format, for example?
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to keep up-to-date with ConTeXt and LuaTeX
> development; I'd rather not keep a separate installation with all and
> only ConTeXt in it, together with a shell script that sets up *only*
> ConTeXt.  I'm happy to keep up-to-date by overwriting the relevant parts
> of my TeXLive distribution with the freshest texmf and binaries.  That
> way, within a single shell I can use the freshest ConTeXt as well as
> LaTeX and pacakges from the TeX Collection.  Perhaps I am going against
> the intention of the "minimal installation"; but the discussion of how
> to get a minimal ConTeXt installation overlaps with the discussion of
> how to stay up-to-date.  I'm more interested in the latter than the
> former.  Perhaps the best thing for such a user would be to just track
> the TeXLive development tree using cvs or rsync.  I'm curious to hear
> any suggetions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jesse
>
> --
> Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)