Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Andrew Starks]

At Aditya's suggestion, I'm cross-posting this from tex.stackexchange.com

[Executive Summary:

I might be missing something really simple and I might be
overcomplicating something really easy. In short:

1: I installed MacTeX 2010.
2: I updated all packages using the normal trees.
3: I changed my TEXMFHOME variable in
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf to "~/src/texmf", which is where I
keep my custom modules/templates/packages. (This is normally within
our github source control, but hasn't been yet.) and moved the content
from the old directory to the new.
4: I was beating my head against the wall, trying to make font
selection work using typescriptfile/typescript as well as simplefont.
The closest I could get was with simplefont and Palatino spewing
garbage text.
5: I decided to try "http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/" with tlmgr using
"sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update
-all"
6: I "sudo texconfig rehash"ed (seemed okay), "sudo mtxrun --generate"
(seemed okay). Then I "sudo luatools --generate" and got something
that ended with " MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or
'mtx-base.lua'"
7: Just typing "luatools" results in: "MTXrun | unknown script
'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'"
8: I tried editing the two texmfcnf.lua files that I found with:

 return {
            content = {
                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
            },
            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
    }

But had no effect.

That is where I'm at right now. Whenever I try to compile, I get:

MTXrun | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven)
MTXrun | running command: luatools --generate
MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

MTXrun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en
MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

MTXrun | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting
MTXrun | total runtime: 0.321

The rest of this email is a more verbose description. Hopefully this
helps you and me, as well. (if only in the documentation department.
:))

] /endexecutive summary %:)

Copied then updated from:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5454/updating-to-beta-builds-of-context-luatex-from-tlcontrib-breaks-mactex


On a fresh install of MacTeX 2010, I was having issues with `mtxrun`
finding fonts and with fonts in general.

I decided to try to dl the betas. In an earlier
question(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5405/switching-to-context-minimals-missing-last-step-for-mactex-2010
(Thanks Kahled!) I found that the ConTeXt minimals were not proper in
this scenario.

So I followed the advice and used this repository. After running:

    sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update -all

...I did everything that I could think of to update the system at
various stages (I'm sure not everything was neutral or helpful)...

    sudo texconfig rehash
    sudo texconfig init
    sudo mtxrun --generate
    sudo luatools --generate

The last command is the issue, as it generates:

    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

In my search on the interweb, I found that perhaps `texmfcnf.lua`
needed the following:

    return {
            content = {
                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf-trms',
            },
            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
    }

I did this to the file that I located in `/usr/local/texlive/2010/`. I
later found evidence that perhaps another `texmfcnf.lua` file needed
this golden block of code, but I could not find another instance of
this file.

So... whassup? It's a clean install if MacTeX 2010. I wonder what I'm missing.

Once this is solved, I'll post another question about fonts, as I have
yet to get those working with LuaTeX as the engine and `simplefonts`
as the method. `mtxrun` never has anything in its list of fonts
(`mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*` or any conceivable
variation) and most font choices don't register at all, or in the odd
case of Palatino, result in garbage text. I have my `OSFONTS` variable
set to `/Library/Fonts`. But alas, for another question. I only post
it here in case the two issues are related.

Thanks everyone!

UPDATE:

I ran `sudo luatex --generate --verbose`

Here is the output:

   MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to ''
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to ''
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to 'bin'
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua'
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' (runtime)
MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
'locators' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
fragment= | authority='
MTXrun | resolvers: hash 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' appended
MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-project' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-fonts' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-local' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-context' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' found
MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' appended
MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' (cached)
MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' found
MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' appended
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
'hashers' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
fragment= | authority='
MTXrun | resolvers: scanning path '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms'
MTXrun | resolvers: 596 files found on 114 directories with 62
uppercase remappings
MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' from
'/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/1240e363db2f4c53de58379d2b0c6f6b'
MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' from
'/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/26993469c6208234eef0d0acf8456c4d'
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'


Okay, I see where it's loading
`'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'`.

Given that my TEXMFHOME tds is set  to `~/src/texmf-trms` I edited it
to say this within `content:`

    -- ORIG: TEXMFHOME       = "$HOME/texmf", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"
       TEXMFHOME       = "~/src/texmf-trms", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"

...and this after, but before `return:` closes:

    -- ORIG: TEXMFCACHE  = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache", -- for old times sake
    TEXMFCACHE  = "~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var", -- for old times sake

Since I did not change the TEXMFCACHE setting.

(As you may be able to tell by now, I don't know what I'm doing. :) )

Running `sudo luatools --generate --verbose` had the same effect, ending with:

    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
    MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

I tried `sudo mtxrun --generate` which seemed to work, but did not
affect `luatools` in any way. I've tried `rehash`ing, then `mtxrun`
then `luatools`. No joy.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear Andrew,

Sorry for top-posting, just a few remarks:

- I don't see anything basically wrong with your procedure.

- I didn't try it yet, but after Taco released luatex 0.64.0 somebody
already pointed out that the "current" version of ConTeXt is not
compatible with the latest version of LuaTeX. I can roll back the
luatex packages on tlcontrib if needed, but I would prefer to wait for
Taco's response. (He needs to approve any change anyway.) So it might
be that any trouble you experience is a sole consequence of that
incompatibility. But I didn't check anything yet.

- luatools doesn't make much sense in post-TL-2010. It has been
replaced by mtxrun entirely. I thought that luatools would still work
the same way as mtxrun though ... but maybe mtxrun has the same
symptoms.

- Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.

- You may also try to install ConTeXt minimals in parallel:

    rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh .
    ./first-setup.sh
    . tex/setuptex

Mojca

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 21:00, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> At Aditya's suggestion, I'm cross-posting this from tex.stackexchange.com
>
> [Executive Summary:
>
> I might be missing something really simple and I might be
> overcomplicating something really easy. In short:
>
> 1: I installed MacTeX 2010.
> 2: I updated all packages using the normal trees.
> 3: I changed my TEXMFHOME variable in
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf to "~/src/texmf", which is where I
> keep my custom modules/templates/packages. (This is normally within
> our github source control, but hasn't been yet.) and moved the content
> from the old directory to the new.
> 4: I was beating my head against the wall, trying to make font
> selection work using typescriptfile/typescript as well as simplefont.
> The closest I could get was with simplefont and Palatino spewing
> garbage text.
> 5: I decided to try "http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/" with tlmgr using
> "sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update
> -all"
> 6: I "sudo texconfig rehash"ed (seemed okay), "sudo mtxrun --generate"
> (seemed okay). Then I "sudo luatools --generate" and got something
> that ended with " MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or
> 'mtx-base.lua'"
> 7: Just typing "luatools" results in: "MTXrun | unknown script
> 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'"
> 8: I tried editing the two texmfcnf.lua files that I found with:
>
>  return {
>            content = {
>                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
>            },
>            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>    }
>
> But had no effect.
>
> That is where I'm at right now. Whenever I try to compile, I get:
>
> MTXrun | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven)
> MTXrun | running command: luatools --generate
> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>
> MTXrun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en
> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>
> MTXrun | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting
> MTXrun | total runtime: 0.321
>
> The rest of this email is a more verbose description. Hopefully this
> helps you and me, as well. (if only in the documentation department.
> :))
>
> ] /endexecutive summary %:)
>
> Copied then updated from:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5454/updating-to-beta-builds-of-context-luatex-from-tlcontrib-breaks-mactex
>
>
> On a fresh install of MacTeX 2010, I was having issues with `mtxrun`
> finding fonts and with fonts in general.
>
> I decided to try to dl the betas. In an earlier
> question(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5405/switching-to-context-minimals-missing-last-step-for-mactex-2010
> (Thanks Kahled!) I found that the ConTeXt minimals were not proper in
> this scenario.
>
> So I followed the advice and used this repository. After running:
>
>    sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update -all
>
> ...I did everything that I could think of to update the system at
> various stages (I'm sure not everything was neutral or helpful)...
>
>    sudo texconfig rehash
>    sudo texconfig init
>    sudo mtxrun --generate
>    sudo luatools --generate
>
> The last command is the issue, as it generates:
>
>    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>
> In my search on the interweb, I found that perhaps `texmfcnf.lua`
> needed the following:
>
>    return {
>            content = {
>                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf-trms',
>            },
>            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>    }
>
> I did this to the file that I located in `/usr/local/texlive/2010/`. I
> later found evidence that perhaps another `texmfcnf.lua` file needed
> this golden block of code, but I could not find another instance of
> this file.
>
> So... whassup? It's a clean install if MacTeX 2010. I wonder what I'm missing.
>
> Once this is solved, I'll post another question about fonts, as I have
> yet to get those working with LuaTeX as the engine and `simplefonts`
> as the method. `mtxrun` never has anything in its list of fonts
> (`mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*` or any conceivable
> variation) and most font choices don't register at all, or in the odd
> case of Palatino, result in garbage text. I have my `OSFONTS` variable
> set to `/Library/Fonts`. But alas, for another question. I only post
> it here in case the two issues are related.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> UPDATE:
>
> I ran `sudo luatex --generate --verbose`
>
> Here is the output:
>
>   MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin'
> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin'
> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010'
> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to ''
> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to ''
> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to 'bin'
> MTXrun | resolvers
> MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua'
> MTXrun | resolvers
> MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'
> MTXrun | resolvers
> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' (runtime)
> MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
> 'locators' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
> query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
> fragment= | authority='
> MTXrun | resolvers: hash 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' appended
> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-project' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-fonts' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-local' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-context' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' found
> MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' appended
> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' (cached)
> MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' found
> MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' appended
> MTXrun | resolvers
> MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
> 'hashers' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
> query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
> fragment= | authority='
> MTXrun | resolvers: scanning path '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms'
> MTXrun | resolvers: 596 files found on 114 directories with 62
> uppercase remappings
> MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' from
> '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/1240e363db2f4c53de58379d2b0c6f6b'
> MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' from
> '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/26993469c6208234eef0d0acf8456c4d'
> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>
>
> Okay, I see where it's loading
> `'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'`.
>
> Given that my TEXMFHOME tds is set  to `~/src/texmf-trms` I edited it
> to say this within `content:`
>
>    -- ORIG: TEXMFHOME       = "$HOME/texmf", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"
>       TEXMFHOME       = "~/src/texmf-trms", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"
>
> ...and this after, but before `return:` closes:
>
>    -- ORIG: TEXMFCACHE  = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache", -- for old times sake
>    TEXMFCACHE  = "~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var", -- for old times sake
>
> Since I did not change the TEXMFCACHE setting.
>
> (As you may be able to tell by now, I don't know what I'm doing. :) )
>
> Running `sudo luatools --generate --verbose` had the same effect, ending with:
>
>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>    MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>
> I tried `sudo mtxrun --generate` which seemed to work, but did not
> affect `luatools` in any way. I've tried `rehash`ing, then `mtxrun`
> then `luatools`. No joy.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.

  I don't think so; I never finished the code I started to write for
Hans then.

	Arthur
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

>> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
>> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
>> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
>> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.
>
>  I don't think so; I never finished the code I started to write for
> Hans then.

Does $HOME work? That may be better than hard coding /Users/yourname.

Aditya
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Andrew Starks]

First off, let me say that you all are the nicest set of developers
and project team members I have ever seen! If I had asked our
developers about an issue in an alpha build, they would have told me
where to go while raising a particular finger in an effort to say
what, I think, is something like, "You're #1!"

I appreciate the offer to roll back a build, but please! This is how
this all goes, right?

Anyway, following the instructions on the tlcontrib.metatex.org (or a
link from there) for restoring the "stable" versions, I got the
fabulous "/usr/texbin/mtxrun:9359: attempt to concatenate local 'v' (a
table value)" on every ConTeXt command that I tried. Lacking the
appetite (and time) to go much further, I tried forcing the uninstall
of everything and then I reinstalled everything using tlmgr. It all
seemed to go whll, but still no avail. After restoring from tlcontrib
and getting only back to nowhere, I just nuked it all and am
reinstalling.

I'm happy to try again, if you all would think I have a better than...
oh... 30% chance of not having to nuke another time. If not, my next
stop is the rsync method. After that, I may have to return, hat in
hand, to LaTeX and check back with you guys in a month or so, just to
see where MacTeX support is at.

BTW: I really like this community and I very much like both what
ConTeXt and  LuaTeX have to offer. In my spare time (-4 hours a day or
so, more if I take my meds), I'd be happy to contribute. I'm much more
of a hack and know next to nothing about bare TeX, although I feel as
though I've done the impossible with my own set of macros. I may be
able to take on some documentation tasks and I also fancy myself a
better-than-average beta tester: not bitchy, test everything all of
the way through, report everything, patient, etc. If all-ya-all want
to point me at something that is in need of such activity, I'd be
happy to look at it. I may just see what can be added to ConTeXt
Garden, but it's hard to know where to start, what's obsolete, what's
good but incomplete, and what's entirely absent. I would need more
time actually using it to truly help, unless someone were to give me
instruction.

Best Regards,

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Andrew,
>
> Sorry for top-posting, just a few remarks:
>
> - I don't see anything basically wrong with your procedure.
>
> - I didn't try it yet, but after Taco released luatex 0.64.0 somebody
> already pointed out that the "current" version of ConTeXt is not
> compatible with the latest version of LuaTeX. I can roll back the
> luatex packages on tlcontrib if needed, but I would prefer to wait for
> Taco's response. (He needs to approve any change anyway.) So it might
> be that any trouble you experience is a sole consequence of that
> incompatibility. But I didn't check anything yet.
>
> - luatools doesn't make much sense in post-TL-2010. It has been
> replaced by mtxrun entirely. I thought that luatools would still work
> the same way as mtxrun though ... but maybe mtxrun has the same
> symptoms.
>
> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.
>
> - You may also try to install ConTeXt minimals in parallel:
>
>    rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh .
>    ./first-setup.sh
>    . tex/setuptex
>
> Mojca
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 21:00, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
>> At Aditya's suggestion, I'm cross-posting this from tex.stackexchange.com
>>
>> [Executive Summary:
>>
>> I might be missing something really simple and I might be
>> overcomplicating something really easy. In short:
>>
>> 1: I installed MacTeX 2010.
>> 2: I updated all packages using the normal trees.
>> 3: I changed my TEXMFHOME variable in
>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf to "~/src/texmf", which is where I
>> keep my custom modules/templates/packages. (This is normally within
>> our github source control, but hasn't been yet.) and moved the content
>> from the old directory to the new.
>> 4: I was beating my head against the wall, trying to make font
>> selection work using typescriptfile/typescript as well as simplefont.
>> The closest I could get was with simplefont and Palatino spewing
>> garbage text.
>> 5: I decided to try "http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/" with tlmgr using
>> "sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update
>> -all"
>> 6: I "sudo texconfig rehash"ed (seemed okay), "sudo mtxrun --generate"
>> (seemed okay). Then I "sudo luatools --generate" and got something
>> that ended with " MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or
>> 'mtx-base.lua'"
>> 7: Just typing "luatools" results in: "MTXrun | unknown script
>> 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'"
>> 8: I tried editing the two texmfcnf.lua files that I found with:
>>
>>  return {
>>            content = {
>>                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
>>            },
>>            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>    }
>>
>> But had no effect.
>>
>> That is where I'm at right now. Whenever I try to compile, I get:
>>
>> MTXrun | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven)
>> MTXrun | running command: luatools --generate
>> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>>
>> MTXrun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en
>> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>>
>> MTXrun | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting
>> MTXrun | total runtime: 0.321
>>
>> The rest of this email is a more verbose description. Hopefully this
>> helps you and me, as well. (if only in the documentation department.
>> :))
>>
>> ] /endexecutive summary %:)
>>
>> Copied then updated from:
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5454/updating-to-beta-builds-of-context-luatex-from-tlcontrib-breaks-mactex
>>
>>
>> On a fresh install of MacTeX 2010, I was having issues with `mtxrun`
>> finding fonts and with fonts in general.
>>
>> I decided to try to dl the betas. In an earlier
>> question(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5405/switching-to-context-minimals-missing-last-step-for-mactex-2010
>> (Thanks Kahled!) I found that the ConTeXt minimals were not proper in
>> this scenario.
>>
>> So I followed the advice and used this repository. After running:
>>
>>    sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update -all
>>
>> ...I did everything that I could think of to update the system at
>> various stages (I'm sure not everything was neutral or helpful)...
>>
>>    sudo texconfig rehash
>>    sudo texconfig init
>>    sudo mtxrun --generate
>>    sudo luatools --generate
>>
>> The last command is the issue, as it generates:
>>
>>    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>>
>> In my search on the interweb, I found that perhaps `texmfcnf.lua`
>> needed the following:
>>
>>    return {
>>            content = {
>>                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf-trms',
>>            },
>>            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>    }
>>
>> I did this to the file that I located in `/usr/local/texlive/2010/`. I
>> later found evidence that perhaps another `texmfcnf.lua` file needed
>> this golden block of code, but I could not find another instance of
>> this file.
>>
>> So... whassup? It's a clean install if MacTeX 2010. I wonder what I'm missing.
>>
>> Once this is solved, I'll post another question about fonts, as I have
>> yet to get those working with LuaTeX as the engine and `simplefonts`
>> as the method. `mtxrun` never has anything in its list of fonts
>> (`mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*` or any conceivable
>> variation) and most font choices don't register at all, or in the odd
>> case of Palatino, result in garbage text. I have my `OSFONTS` variable
>> set to `/Library/Fonts`. But alas, for another question. I only post
>> it here in case the two issues are related.
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>>
>> UPDATE:
>>
>> I ran `sudo luatex --generate --verbose`
>>
>> Here is the output:
>>
>>   MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to ''
>> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to ''
>> MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to 'bin'
>> MTXrun | resolvers
>> MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua'
>> MTXrun | resolvers
>> MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'
>> MTXrun | resolvers
>> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' (runtime)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
>> 'locators' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
>> query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
>> fragment= | authority='
>> MTXrun | resolvers: hash 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' appended
>> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-project' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-fonts' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-local' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-context' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' found
>> MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' appended
>> MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' (cached)
>> MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' found
>> MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' appended
>> MTXrun | resolvers
>> MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' ->
>> 'hashers' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false |
>> query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms |
>> fragment= | authority='
>> MTXrun | resolvers: scanning path '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: 596 files found on 114 directories with 62
>> uppercase remappings
>> MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' from
>> '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/1240e363db2f4c53de58379d2b0c6f6b'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for
>> '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' from
>> '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/26993469c6208234eef0d0acf8456c4d'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
>> MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>> MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>>
>>
>> Okay, I see where it's loading
>> `'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'`.
>>
>> Given that my TEXMFHOME tds is set  to `~/src/texmf-trms` I edited it
>> to say this within `content:`
>>
>>    -- ORIG: TEXMFHOME       = "$HOME/texmf", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"
>>       TEXMFHOME       = "~/src/texmf-trms", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"
>>
>> ...and this after, but before `return:` closes:
>>
>>    -- ORIG: TEXMFCACHE  = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache", -- for old times sake
>>    TEXMFCACHE  = "~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var", -- for old times sake
>>
>> Since I did not change the TEXMFCACHE setting.
>>
>> (As you may be able to tell by now, I don't know what I'm doing. :) )
>>
>> Running `sudo luatools --generate --verbose` had the same effect, ending with:
>>
>>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>>    MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
>>    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
>>    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'
>>
>> I tried `sudo mtxrun --generate` which seemed to work, but did not
>> affect `luatools` in any way. I've tried `rehash`ing, then `mtxrun`
>> then `luatools`. No joy.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Andrew Starks]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>
>>> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
>>> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
>>> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
>>> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.
>>
>>  I don't think so; I never finished the code I started to write for
>> Hans then.
>
> Does $HOME work? That may be better than hard coding /Users/yourname.
>
> Aditya
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No, but I've discerned that the:

 return {
           content = {
                   TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
                   TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
           },
           TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
   }

modification does not work for the MacTeX/TeXLive install. It needs to
go back to the:

TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var'

...varient.

BTW: the last coma after the last TEXMFCACHE entry didn't look right,
but deleting it did nothing. I tried combinations of order and $HOME
for only TEXMFCACHE, etc. Nothing changed it. All of this testing was
not on the tlcontrib tree. It was only on the MacTeX tree. Therefore,
I may be saying things that you already know.

Now that I understand why I was getting the "v table value" error, I
may try merge in the tlconfrib tree in, just for... you know... fun!
Then I'll try the $HOME variants on that configuration and let you
know.

Thanks all!
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 05:26:18 Andrew Starks wrote:
> First off, let me say that you all are the nicest set of developers
> and project team members I have ever seen!

Andrew,

I have to agree with you and join in your praise of the ConTeXt community.

Alan
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 11/17/2010 01:45 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Dear Andrew,
>
> Sorry for top-posting, just a few remarks:
>
> - I don't see anything basically wrong with your procedure.
>
> - I didn't try it yet, but after Taco released luatex 0.64.0 somebody
> already pointed out that the "current" version of ConTeXt is not
> compatible with the latest version of LuaTeX. I can roll back the
> luatex packages on tlcontrib if needed, but I would prefer to wait for
> Taco's response. (He needs to approve any change anyway.) So it might
> be that any trouble you experience is a sole consequence of that
> incompatibility. But I didn't check anything yet.

This means it is time for a new 'current' context, I think.
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:26, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, following the instructions on the tlcontrib.metatex.org (or a
> link from there) for restoring the "stable" versions, I got the
> fabulous "/usr/texbin/mtxrun:9359: attempt to concatenate local 'v' (a
> table value)" on every ConTeXt command that I tried.

My guess is that you would have to say something similar to
    tlmgr install --reinstall luatex context
without having the repository set to tlcontrib anywhere.

> I'm happy to try again, if you all would think I have a better than...
> oh... 30% chance of not having to nuke another time. If not, my next
> stop is the rsync method. After that, I may have to return, hat in
> hand, to LaTeX and check back with you guys in a month or so, just to
> see where MacTeX support is at.

Please just wait until "the dust settles". Maybe there will be a new
ConTeXt current; or we will roll back to luatex 0.63.0 for a while.


> BTW: I really like this community and I very much like both what
> ConTeXt and  LuaTeX have to offer. In my spare time (-4 hours a day or
> so, more if I take my meds), I'd be happy to contribute. I'm much more
> of a hack and know next to nothing about bare TeX, although I feel as
> though I've done the impossible with my own set of macros. I may be
> able to take on some documentation tasks and I also fancy myself a
> better-than-average beta tester: not bitchy, test everything all of
> the way through, report everything, patient, etc. If all-ya-all want
> to point me at something that is in need of such activity, I'd be
> happy to look at it. I may just see what can be added to ConTeXt
> Garden, but it's hard to know where to start, what's obsolete, what's
> good but incomplete, and what's entirely absent. I would need more
> time actually using it to truly help, unless someone were to give me
> instruction.

Installation pages almost all need to be rewritten or at least cleaned up.
I would not advice you to use rsync to fetch the latest version of
ConTeXt since this means messing up with the official installation. It
was unavoidable in 2009, but in 2010 at least ConTeXt works out of the
box in TeX Live.

In order to update MacTeX you need to patch texmfcnf.lua and use
tlcontrib. That is the best option apart from installing minimals in
parallel. It's only that tlcontrib might be slightly out-of-sync. (I
didn't try to update with tlcontrib yet, I only commited the binaries
:)

Mojca
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:02, Andrew Starks wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>
>>>> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
>>>> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
>>>> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
>>>> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.
>>>
>>>  I don't think so; I never finished the code I started to write for
>>> Hans then.
>>
>> Does $HOME work? That may be better than hard coding /Users/yourname.
>
> No, but I've discerned that the:
>
>  return {
>           content = {
>                   TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>                   TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
>           },
>           TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>   }
>
> modification does not work for the MacTeX/TeXLive install. It needs to
> go back to the:
>
> TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var'
>
> ...varient.

Just a slight explanation. The first part "content = {...}" is useful
for the latest version of ConTeXt that is shipped with tlcontrib. The
second TEXMFCACHE is used by the old version that comes with TeX
Live/MacTeX 2010 by default. They happily live together and the second
one will be removed next year.

The problem with tilde has been discovered recently (and not necessary
fixed yet). You could try

return {
    content = {
        TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
        TEXMFHOME = '$HOME/src/texmf-trms',
    },
    TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
}

but probably nobody has tested if $HOME is expanded properly in that
particular case either. But in any case the first part will only make
a difference if you use tlcontrib and the second part will only make a
difference if you use the default old version of ConTeXt.

> BTW: the last coma after the last TEXMFCACHE entry didn't look right,
> but deleting it did nothing.

The last comma doesn't change anything. (I like lua.) It's useful if
you copy-paste new lines at the end, so that you don't forget to add a
comma in between.

> I tried combinations of order and $HOME
> for only TEXMFCACHE, etc. Nothing changed it. All of this testing was
> not on the tlcontrib tree. It was only on the MacTeX tree. Therefore,
> I may be saying things that you already know.

What exactly do you mean with "MacTeX tree" and "tlcontrib tree"? I
have exactly these setting in texmfcnf.lua:

return {
	content = {
		TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
		TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf',
	},
	TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
}

and
    ls ~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/
does show me luatex-cache. So maybe some expansion does take place.
However I admit that I have never tried if TEXMFHOME set that way has
any influence at all.

Mojca
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Re: Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

[Andrew Starks]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:02, Andrew Starks wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>>
>>>>> - Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in
>>>>> texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent
>>>>> than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly
>>>>> in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.
>>>>
>>>>  I don't think so; I never finished the code I started to write for
>>>> Hans then.
>>>
>>> Does $HOME work? That may be better than hard coding /Users/yourname.
>>
>> No, but I've discerned that the:
>>
>>  return {
>>           content = {
>>                   TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>                   TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',
>>           },
>>           TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>>   }
>>
>> modification does not work for the MacTeX/TeXLive install. It needs to
>> go back to the:
>>
>> TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var'
>>
>> ...varient.
>
> Just a slight explanation. The first part "content = {...}" is useful
> for the latest version of ConTeXt that is shipped with tlcontrib. The
> second TEXMFCACHE is used by the old version that comes with TeX
> Live/MacTeX 2010 by default. They happily live together and the second
> one will be removed next year.
>
> The problem with tilde has been discovered recently (and not necessary
> fixed yet). You could try
>
> return {
>    content = {
>        TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>        TEXMFHOME = '$HOME/src/texmf-trms',
>    },
>    TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
> }
>
> but probably nobody has tested if $HOME is expanded properly in that
> particular case either. But in any case the first part will only make
> a difference if you use tlcontrib and the second part will only make a
> difference if you use the default old version of ConTeXt.
>
>> BTW: the last coma after the last TEXMFCACHE entry didn't look right,
>> but deleting it did nothing.
>
> The last comma doesn't change anything. (I like lua.) It's useful if
> you copy-paste new lines at the end, so that you don't forget to add a
> comma in between.
>
>> I tried combinations of order and $HOME
>> for only TEXMFCACHE, etc. Nothing changed it. All of this testing was
>> not on the tlcontrib tree. It was only on the MacTeX tree. Therefore,
>> I may be saying things that you already know.
>
> What exactly do you mean with "MacTeX tree" and "tlcontrib tree"? I
> have exactly these setting in texmfcnf.lua:
>
> return {
>        content = {
>                TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
>                TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf',
>        },
>        TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
> }
>
> and
>    ls ~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/
> does show me luatex-cache. So maybe some expansion does take place.
> However I admit that I have never tried if TEXMFHOME set that way has
> any influence at all.
>
> Mojca
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ummm... yeah. I don't want to be all "la-tee-da" and stuff, but I
think i figured out nirvana. So, it appears that the latest beta
builds like:

--TexLive Version
--return { TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var' }

--tlcontrib Version
return {content={ TEXMFCACHE = '$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',
TEXMFHOME = '$HOME/src/texmf-trms'},
TEXMFCACHE='$HOME/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var'}

so, I put the following into my bash shell:

function tlcontext {
	sudo cp -f -v /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf-tlcontrib.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua;
	sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update
context luatex metapost;
}

function tlmactex {
	sudo cp -f -v /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf-mactex.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua;
	sudo tlmgr install context luatex metapost --reinstall;

}

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which should be pretty obvious. Now it all works sweet. My motivation
for this is... unclear. I really just needed to install the latest
PGF/TiKz package to be good to go. But at least I'm (marginally)
smarter now. :)

Thanks, all! I'll let you know if I find anything else!
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