From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37790 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: backward compatibility [URGENT] Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:10:56 +0100 Message-ID: <47590E20.5010103@wxs.nl> References: <1FEF4502-D426-474D-9649-5D01255E7495@st.estfiles.de> <4758380E.5020708@elvenkind.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 1197018776 636 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 09:12:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:12:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 07 10:13:06 2007 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 1J0ZGc-0003lL-4F for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:13:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081271FB91; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:12:49 +0100 (CET) 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 11922-02-2; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:12:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2511FB72; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:12:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D5C1FB71 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:12:10 +0100 (CET) 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 11922-02 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:11:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEBC1FB72 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:11:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 32 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:11:40 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:37790 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:31:58 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Is there an easy way to do this, like using sudo ctxtools -- >>>> updatecontext and use the respective files from the museum? >>> Where is the museum exactly? I usually keep old cont-tmf's for up to half >>> a year before deleting them but if there is a depository... >> See >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions > > Hans, > > How hard is to implement a --downgrade switch (or --upgrade=version) in > ctxtools? It would be as simple as: > > 1. Go to http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14, parse for the > particular date and download the appropriate files, or > 2. Try all files tmf, exa, win|ppc|?? one by one, and download the ones > that are available, > > and then unzip the files and remake the formats. This would make going > back to an old version really easy. I don't know if packet managers for > linux like apt-get can downgrade to an earlier version. In any case, this > will be a very useful feature. eventually the minimal installer should be able to do this ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________