From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/64033 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Pessotto Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Portable linux Minimals installation? Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:56:56 +0100 Message-ID: <871v64gouf.fsf@universe.krase.net> References: <87eia4gpnx.fsf@universe.krase.net> 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: dough.gmane.org 1291042653 26734 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2010 14:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:57:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 29 15:57:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PN5AU-0004gb-JX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C3DCA88E; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Z4c1IEudS7-e; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD661CA88F; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3617CA88F for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9M9cMgasiFPH for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DCDCA88E for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oATEv84v020373 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PN5AC-0004Ys-65 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from 78-3-214-119.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.3.214.119]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from melmothx by 78-3-214-119.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-3-214-119.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WoKGTf8ll4aX5IzeVz32MagiBq0= X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.91.229.12; country=NO; latitude=62.0000; longitude=10.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=62.0000,10.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06DB2V8yL - e1b4c2a6aed7 - 20101129 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:64033 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________