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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2008-07-27 22:41:35 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2008-07-27 22:41:35 +0000
commit6790b16e9812bb41678245063bee02630f0f68d8 (patch)
tree36bc2b0d9e47a53d76060c4cb974b3941a727722
parent5b8e1ac4d3ee6a607787b86d3070ebad62222d7d (diff)
mention use of tlmgr option location to reset source from DVD to Internet
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@9824 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
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+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -1449,6 +1449,14 @@ C<formats> (create formats at installation time),
C<docfiles> (install documentation files),
C<srcfiles> (install source files).
+Perhaps the most common use for this is if you originally installed from
+DVD, and want to permanently change the installation to get further
+updates from the Internet. To do this, you can run
+
+ tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/YYYY
+
+(where YYYY is the TeX Live release year).
+
=item B<paper a4>
=item B<paper letter>