From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41988 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesse Alama Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: distro info Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:27:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6faad9f00806110905q32b9c142t6af44f2edf85adbf@mail.gmail.com> <4F0FF6A1-CBA4-455D-80A5-785E59607044@di.unito.it> <181B45FF-223C-4CBB-8909-F4C9BB2E0C5B@fiee.net> <653FF68A-0886-4ECA-A87C-36D95138437A@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f00806141159p59426d2el8095f02c07479d54@mail.gmail.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1214803791 1014 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 05:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:29:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 30 07:30:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDBy8-0007Nk-Cl for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F471FBC1; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:29:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07433-04-13; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:29:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A491FCF3; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D411FBDB for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07439-04-11 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B841FC83 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KDBvn-0004Cc-AP for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:28:03 +0000 Original-Received: from c-71-202-237-115.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([71.202.237.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:28:03 +0000 Original-Received: from alama by c-71-202-237-115.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:28:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 63 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-202-237-115.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zsAaX7fjM1pcsO+fmwMEtoJEEDE= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41988 Archived-At: "Mojca Miklavec" writes: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: >> "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes: >> >> The basis for my own comments in this thread do not lie in a preference >> for graphical tools, but rather for a straightforward way to stay >> up-to-date with the whole of ConTeXt in a way that ctxtools does not >> currently provide. A command-line interface for that would be great, >> and so would a graphical tool. > > That's not a general solution, but if you need it for yourself, you > can put the following to some file and execute it whenever you want: > > rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/beta/ > /path/to/your/texmf/ > rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/bin/ > /path/to/your/binaries/ > etc. > > There's a limited set of folders that you need to update, and it will > only update new files, you don't need to update everything. Two questions: 1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext? Are those equivalent? 2. It looks like the subdirectories that I want are common context luatex man metapost if I want to follow only luatex development. (The only subdirectories that aren't in that list are mswin, which doesn't apply to me, and pdftex and xetex.) I'd like to just put this on top of my TeXLive (2007) distribution. Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary directory, what's the next step? Do I need to rebuild the ConTeXt format, for example? What I'm looking for is a way to keep up-to-date with ConTeXt and LuaTeX development; I'd rather not keep a separate installation with all and only ConTeXt in it, together with a shell script that sets up *only* ConTeXt. I'm happy to keep up-to-date by overwriting the relevant parts of my TeXLive distribution with the freshest texmf and binaries. That way, within a single shell I can use the freshest ConTeXt as well as LaTeX and pacakges from the TeX Collection. Perhaps I am going against the intention of the "minimal installation"; but the discussion of how to get a minimal ConTeXt installation overlaps with the discussion of how to stay up-to-date. I'm more interested in the latter than the former. Perhaps the best thing for such a user would be to just track the TeXLive development tree using cvs or rsync. I'm curious to hear any suggetions. Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________