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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2008-07-05 17:22:12 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2008-07-05 17:22:12 +0000
commitc54a9dca22b83a6f4e91234dad93f701e81257fe (patch)
treef11f0717417696fca5066b26fc801bab358ad7d3 /Master/install-tl
parent92472e72ff8124839fdc85a59190ad0bc3285b4a (diff)
more documentation on -url.
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@9274 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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@@ -1271,8 +1271,17 @@ Preloads a TeX Live profile for equal installations on different systems.
=item B<-url> I<url>
-Overrides the default URL for network installs. Should start with
-either ftp:// or http://
+Overrides the default URL for network installs. Must start with either
+C<ftp://> or C<http:/>/ (it is passed to wget), and do not include a
+trailing C</>. Do not include the final C<tlpkg/> level; for example,
+you could choose a particular CTAN mirror with something like:
+ -url http://ctan.example.org/tex-archive/texlive/tlnet/2008
+
+(Of course the correct hostname and its particular top-level CTAN path
+have to be specified.) The list of CTAN mirrors is maintained at
+L<http://ctan.org/mirrors>. The default is to pick a mirror
+automatically, using L<http://mirror.ctan.org>; one mirror is used for
+the entire download.
=item B<-netarchive> I<dir>