From: Marco Pessotto <melmothx@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Portable linux Minimals installation?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:56:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v64gouf.fsf@universe.krase.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTika-4oix3mAMf+V7ZPhurAinZ+xhuF-wNseNR1E@mail.gmail.com>
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 15:39, Marco Pessotto wrote:
>>
>> It's happening to me that I have to travel to a place where there's no
>> broadband access, and I'd like to take ConTeXt with me. So I can't just
>> run the installer and rsync the trees. Now, the question is: is it safe
>> to tarball the ConTeXt root directory with executable and texmf trees,
>> and move it around (on another machine)? Or are there hardcoded paths
>> that prevents this?
>
> No, there are no hardcoded paths. You may even fetch both linux and
> linux-64 architectures in parallel (or all the architectures), so that
> it will work on any architecture. The only "somehow hardcoded" path is
> the name of folder inside luatex-cache, but that's easy to
> change/recover (you may simply delete contents of luatex-cache and
> rerun mtxrun --generate).
>
> Mojca
>
Thanks. I've added a brief section to
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Moving_the_installation_tree_around_.28linux.29
--
Marco
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