From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41996 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: distro info Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00806300120y790b137fy27a4e5b0810009f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F0FF6A1-CBA4-455D-80A5-785E59607044@di.unito.it> <181B45FF-223C-4CBB-8909-F4C9BB2E0C5B@fiee.net> <653FF68A-0886-4ECA-A87C-36D95138437A@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f00806141159p59426d2el8095f02c07479d54@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 1214814144 27308 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 08:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:24 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 30 10:23:09 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 1KDEfD-0004Bl-SF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5501FCF4; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:22:15 +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 05546-02-2; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:21:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2721FD7D; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:21:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0251FD8A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:21:30 +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 05257-06 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.157]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FF81FD7E for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:20:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so897986ywm.74 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.139.15 with SMTP id m15mr7964106ybd.182.1214814047454; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.137.7 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:20:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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:41996 Archived-At: 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. 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