Re: distro info

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jesse Alama wrote:
> "Mojca Miklavec" 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,

It only downloads newer files & you can fetch binaries

> as
> you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext?  Are those equivalent?

It downleady the whole zip every time you call it.

> 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.

What about trying to install TeX Live 2008? It desperately needs
testers at the moment, and all that you will need to do to stay up to
date is fetching:
- luatex
- context itself
- maybe luatool & mtxrun

> 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?

Yes.

Mojca
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