From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:56:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50712251656s296af25bnda7be4a76a683c99@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00712230208i71deafbdoff790e6e4d63687f@mail.gmail.com>
I'm trying to put everything together so potential problems are easily
identifiable, and so that a recipe or shell script can perhaps be put
on the wiki.
On Dec 23, 2007 5:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a
> few rsync calls yourself. At
> http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/
> you have:
> - current ConTeXt
> - almost-latest binaries
> - fonts
> any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way.
So, since I have a working TeX from Ubuntu, I want to put all the
"new" stuff in my TEXMFHOME (A.K.A. ~/texmf). To this end, I could
use some help putting the rsync calls together.
In each case the command will take the form "rsync --recursive --perms
--compress --checksum --times --links --verbose rsync://<something>/
~/texmf/<somewhere>", which I'll abbreviate in this email as "rsync
-rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/... ~/texmf/..." (so lines don't
get broken at inconvenient times).
The basic ConTeXt stuff gets pulled in, as Mojca suggested, thus:
rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/context/current/ ~/texmf/
Next, I want to get the up-to-date binaries, for which I'd like to do
something like
rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/[*]/linux/ ~/texmf/
where I either need to write a separate line for each of {common,
context, luatex, metapost, pdftex, xetex}, or have a single command
that includes them all. (Since I intend to put this all in a shell
script, a bit of duplication isn't a problem.) This will put
"/current/bin/[package]/[system]/bin/[whatever]" into "~/texmf/bin/",
where I think they belong in an installed system.
The manuals seem to be in a somewhat odd place (under bin!); I'd use
rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/man/ ~/texmf/
but no programs should care where they are; this is my own use. In
fact, perhaps I should put the man pages where the man system can find
them. I'll leave this for another day.
NB: I have no idea whether I need the stuff in "/current/base" or
"/current/misc", nor where in the texmf tree they would go.
I won't be installing any modules now, so I can ignore that part of the tree.
The fonts are, like the binaries, in a
"/current/fonts/[group]/fonts/[format]/..." tree, and the installed
system should have them in "~/texmf/fonts/[format]/...", so I need
another four lines of the sort
rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/fonts/[*]/ ~/texmf/
where [*] is one of {common, new, old, other}. (Are there any I
really don't need or want?)
I add ~/texmf/bin to the front of my PATH.
And then I follow all that up with a rebuilding of the format files with
texexec -- make --all
texexec -- make --all --xtx
texexec -- make --all --lua
(Will the formats be made in TEXMFHOME or somewhere else?)
If this passes the sanity check with you guys, and if I can get
answers to the stuff I'm unsure on, I'll try it & report back.
--Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 17:22 Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-21 17:59 ` luigi scarso
2007-12-21 23:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-22 2:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-23 3:47 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-23 10:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-26 0:56 ` Joel C. Salomon [this message]
2007-12-26 11:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-26 16:12 ` Ciro Soto
2007-12-26 19:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-26 19:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-23 15:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-22 15:05 ` Peter Münster
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