strongly warn that local edits to the main texmf.cnf will be lost

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@10659 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Master/install-tl b/Master/install-tl
index 6775f4481a4..99591eb5060 100755
--- a/Master/install-tl
+++ b/Master/install-tl
@@ -1194,16 +1194,16 @@ sub do_texmf_cnf {
     $TMF = ">$vars{'TEXDIR'}/texmf.cnf";
     open(TMF, $TMF) || die "open($TMF) failed: $!\n";
     print TMF <<EOF;
-% This is the texmf.cnf file which contains only changes from the
-% texmf.cnf distributed for the release of year YYYY, which is in
-% TLROOT/YYYY/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.
-%
-% Please do NOT change values in this YYYY/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf file,
-% as they may be overwritten by later updates of the kpathsea
-% package(s).
-%
-% Instead, if you want to configure something to a value different from
-% the one in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, just put the changed value here.
+% This texmf.cnf file should contain only your personal changes from the
+% main texmf.cnf.
+% 
+% Do NOT change values in the main file (which is in
+% .../texlive/YYYY/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf), as YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST
+% by later updates.
+% 
+% If you need to make changes to texmf.cnf, put your custom settings in
+% this file instead, which is YYYY/texmf.cnf.  And insert *only* your
+% changed values.
 %
 EOF
 ;