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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2017-03-22 01:05:41 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2017-03-22 01:05:41 +0000
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tl-update-auto
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1 b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
index e3404f2d5de..63b2ec65674 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "TLMGR 1"
-.TH TLMGR 1 "2017-03-01" "perl v5.24.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
+.TH TLMGR 1 "2017-03-21" "perl v5.24.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -172,9 +172,11 @@ with \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr\*(C'\fR:
.IX Item "tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet"
.PD
Tell \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr\*(C'\fR to use a nearby \s-1CTAN\s0 mirror for future updates; useful if
-you installed TeX Live from the \s-1DVD\s0 image and want continuing
+you installed TeX Live from the \s-1DVD\s0 image and want to have continuing
updates. The two commands are equivalent; \f(CW\*(C`ctan\*(C'\fR is just an alias for
-the given url.
+the given url. Caveat: \f(CW\*(C`mirror.ctan.org\*(C'\fR resolves to many different
+hosts, and they are not perfectly synchronized; we recommend updating
+only daily (at most), and not more often.
.ie n .IP """tlmgr update \-\-list""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWtlmgr update \-\-list\fR" 4
.IX Item "tlmgr update --list"
@@ -1245,8 +1247,8 @@ downgrade. Also, packages for uninstalled platforms are not installed.
with a suffix representing the repository url, as in
\&\f(CW\*(C`tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.\*(C'\fR\fIlong-hash-string\fR. These can be useful for
fallback information, but if you don't like them accumulating (e.g.,
-on each run \f(CW\*(C`mirror.ctan.org\*(C'\fR might resolve to a new host, resulting in
-a different hash), it's harmless to delete them.
+\&\f(CW\*(C`mirror.ctan.org\*(C'\fR resolves to many different hosts, each resulting in
+a possibly different hash), it's harmless to delete them.
.SH "CONFIGURATION FILE FOR TLMGR"
.IX Header "CONFIGURATION FILE FOR TLMGR"
There are two configuration files for \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr\*(C'\fR: One is system-wide in