Installing a specific version of context

Installing a specific version of context

[N. Raghavendra]

I would like to install the version of context dated 2017.11.14.  How
can one do this?  I tried

sh first-setup.sh --context=2017.11.14

but it produces errors like

rsync: change_dir "/current/context/2017.11.14" (in minimals) failed: No
such file or directory (2)

I'd appreciate suggestions about this.

Thanks,
Raghu.

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N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
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Re: Installing a specific version of context

[Mohammad Hossein Bateni]

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I don't think it's possible to do off-the-shelf.  The following is what I
used to do to run some tests:
1) Install the latest beta.
2) Clone to the mirror on Github [
https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror]
3) Sync the cloned repository to an older date
4) Replace the tex folder in context installation with the content of the
repository
5) Make the format files

It worked for me when I did my tests.  (I wanted to see when a particular
functionality had changed/broke.)

However, this is not perfect.  Because the LuaTeX and the other binaries
will be latest, not the versions specific to the date you requested.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:56 AM, N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would like to install the version of context dated 2017.11.14.  How
> can one do this?  I tried
>
> sh first-setup.sh --context=2017.11.14
>
> but it produces errors like
>
> rsync: change_dir "/current/context/2017.11.14" (in minimals) failed: No
> such file or directory (2)
>
> I'd appreciate suggestions about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Raghu.
>
> --
> N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
> Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
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Re: Installing a specific version of context

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2018-04-24T08:44:24-04:00, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:

> I don't think it's possible to do off-the-shelf.

The Wiki

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Reverting_to_an_older_installation

says that it is possible with

sh ./first-setup.sh --context=date

Also, mtx-update.lua, which is called by first-setup.sh, appears to have
the following option

<flag name="context" value="string"><short>specify version (current, latest, beta, yyyy.mm.dd)</short></flag>

Raghu.

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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
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