---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> Date: 2012/4/18 Subject: [tldev] tlmgr multi repository support To: tl...@tug.org
Dear all, with today's update tlmgr multi repository support has entered into the tlcritical repository and the main svn branch. We will not ship that for TL2011, but keep it already now in tlcritical for testing. Everyone is invited to *actually* test it. Here a short recipe: 1* update tlmgr/texlive.infra to the version in tlcritical: tlmgr --repository ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --self if that has succeeded, you should now have a multi-repository capable installations, but set up to work in normal single repo mode as before. To add repositories you have to two two things: 2a* add another repository: tlmgr repository add ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical tlc (the tlc is just a tag name, you can give it any reasonable and unique one that is not "main" and not used already) If you installation was up2date before, you will see no change but a slightly different output, and a strange line: $ tlmgr update --list tlmgr: package repository: main = http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet tlc = ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical tlmgr: saving backups to /home/norbert/tltest/2011/tlpkg/backups keep: texlive.infra : local: 26004, source: 24419@main tlmgr: no updates available $ Why? Because there is the missing step 2b* which tells tlmgr which packages are taken from which repository. By default *ALL* packages are taken from the main repository, the first entered. You will see now two repositories if you have followed me up to here: $ tlmgr repository List of repositories (with tags if set): ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical (tlc) http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet (main) $ Now how do you tell that you *always* want texlive.infra from tlcritical: 2b* Declare pinning rules For the full documentation read tlmgr help, in principle you have to add a file TEXMFLOCAL/tlpkg/pinning.txt which contains lines repo:pkg[,pkg] where repo is either the full URL or the tag you gave, and pkg is a package name and can contain shell globs. So to tell tlmgr that you want all texlive.infra packages from tlcritical, you have to create a file TEXMFLOCAL/tlpkg/pinning.txt containing only the line tlc:texlive.infra* (where tlc is the name you gave above). After that the output of tlmgr will change: $ tlmgr update --list tlmgr: using pinning file /home/norbert/tltest/2011/../texmf-local/tlpkg/pinning.txt tlmgr: package repository: main = http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet tlc = ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical tlmgr: saving backups to /home/norbert/tltest/2011/tlpkg/backups tlmgr: no updates available $ You can inquire about different candidates for installation via: $ tlmgr candidates texlive.infra tlmgr: using pinning file /home/norbert/tltest/2011/../texmf-local/tlpkg/pinning.txt tlmgr: package repository: main = http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet tlc = ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical Install candidate for texlive.infra from tlc (26004) Other repositories providing this package: main (24419) $ etc etc. Please read the full man page of tlmgr for more details. I hope that helps some people to try it out, and give me feed back. This was a long term project and is now simmering in my local repository for more than half a year, but still a wider test is very much needed before TL2012 is released. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUDSEY (n.) The curious-shaped flat wads of dough left on a kitchen table after someone has been cutting scones out of it. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________