Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

[David Arnold]

All,

Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for  
the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context  
updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.

If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.

Thanks.

Re: Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> All,
>
> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for
> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context
> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
>
> If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
>
> Thanks.

Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice  
a day...

My own experience is: it's perfectly smooth, and if there were  
problems, they weren't specific to the Mac. If you want the formats  
to be copied into the system-wide tree (that's /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/ 
texmf.local/web2c) instead of your personal ~/Library/texmf/ and are  
using the new texmfstart method, you should invoke the script from a  
root shell:

sudo su

texmfstart texexec --make --all

Other than that, I can't think of anything special.

Good luck

Thomas

Re: Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

[Hans Hagen]

David Arnold wrote:
> All,
>
> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for  
> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context  
> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
>
> If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
>   
hm, i'll make you a beta which then will show up in gerbens distro 

Hans 

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Re: Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>
>   
>> All,
>>
>> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for
>> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context
>> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
>>
>> If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
> Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice  
> a day...
>   
that's even more frequently than i do -)

so you use all new tricks, features and fixes ... interesting
>   
ctxtools --update 

should also do the job 

but one has to make sure that a next update with gerbens installer does not conflict with your own update then  

Hans  

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Re: Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

[Alan Bowen]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

>
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for
>> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context
>> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
>>
>> If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice
> a day...
>
> My own experience is: it's perfectly smooth, and if there were
> problems, they weren't specific to the Mac. If you want the formats
> to be copied into the system-wide tree (that's /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/
> texmf.local/web2c) instead of your personal ~/Library/texmf/ and are
> using the new texmfstart method, you should invoke the script from a
> root shell:
>
> sudo su
>
> texmfstart texexec --make --all
>
> Other than that, I can't think of anything special.
>
> Good luck
>
> Thomas

After running
sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all
I have on the odd occasion had to copy the updated cont-en.fmt and  
cont-nl.fmt  from
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex
to
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c

In any case, check the creation dates/times. When the latest version  
was not in the latter, I got format mismatch errors and then nada.

I am not sure why this happened, since I had not done anything other  
than run Gerben’s i-Installer.

Alan