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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2018-05-29 22:29:57 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2018-05-29 22:29:57 +0000
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@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ Karl Berry, 2010.)
choosing. In this order:
<ol>
<li>If the environment variable <tt>TEXLIVE_DOWNLOADER</tt> is
- defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ defined, use it; abort if the specified program doesn't work.
+ Possible values: <tt>curl</tt>, <tt>wget</tt>.
<li>If the environment variable <tt>TL_DOWNLOAD_PROGRAM</tt> is
- defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ defined (can be any value), use it together with
+ <tt>TL_DOWNLOAD_ARGS</tt>; abort if it doesn't work.
<li>If LWP is available and working, use that (by far the most
efficient method, as it supports persistent downloads).
<li>If curl is available (from the system) and working, use that.
@@ -22,7 +24,8 @@ choosing. In this order:
intermediate rollback containers were always created with xz. Now:
<ol>
<li>If the environment variable <tt>TEXLIVE_COMPRESSOR</tt> is
- defined, use it; abort on failure if it doesn't work.
+ defined, use it; abort if it doesn't work. Possible values:
+ <tt>lz4</tt>, <tt>gzip</tt>, <tt>xz</tt>.
<li>If lz4 is available (either from the system or TL) and working, use that.
<li>If gzip is available (from the system) and working, use that.
<li>If xz is available (either from the system or TL) and working, use that.
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ choosing. In this order:
repository of the form <tt>user@machine:/path/to/tlnet</tt> is now
supported; the url-like forms
<tt>scp://user@machine/path/to/tlnet</tt> and
- <tt>scp://user@machine/path/to/tlnet</tt> are equivalent. ssh-agent
+ <tt>ssh://user@machine/path/to/tlnet</tt> are equivalent. ssh-agent
is strongly recommended!
<p><b>tlmgr 47303 (released 14apr18):</b>