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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2017-03-21 17:08:03 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2017-03-21 17:08:03 +0000
commit8e59f1a263dd829945116de0863fbf023f8f07b5 (patch)
tree45a911c2a3c12dacc65bd25f3475ec168da1e5ad /Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
parent2c396c31d4fa5268218d1e1607837b156cd1dc1f (diff)
tlmgr.pl: mention problem of too-frequent updates using mirror.ctan.org.
(Uwe Siart, tex-live 02 Mar 2017 10:30:35) install-menu-txt.pl: menu headings more consistent, try to clarify customizations vs. actions. (Alan Litchfield, texhax 12 Mar 2017 11:37:35) tl-update-asy: need ASYMPTOTE_EPSDRIVER; simplify since original is no longer svn. releng.txt: more version number locations. git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@43566 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index f3b7d61b89d..1117e5e94e1 100755
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# $Id$
#
-# Copyright 2008-2016 Norbert Preining
+# Copyright 2008-2017 Norbert Preining
# This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
# or any later version.
#
@@ -6540,9 +6540,11 @@ with C<tlmgr>:
=item C<tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet>
Tell C<tlmgr> to use a nearby CTAN mirror for future updates; useful if
-you installed TeX Live from the DVD image and want continuing
+you installed TeX Live from the DVD image and want to have continuing
updates. The two commands are equivalent; C<ctan> is just an alias for
-the given url.
+the given url. Caveat: C<mirror.ctan.org> resolves to many different
+hosts, and they are not perfectly synchronized; we recommend updating
+only daily (at most), and not more often.
=item C<tlmgr update --list>
@@ -7741,8 +7743,8 @@ C<tlmgr> saves a copy of the C<texlive.tlpdb> file used for an update
with a suffix representing the repository url, as in
C<tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.>I<long-hash-string>. These can be useful for
fallback information, but if you don't like them accumulating (e.g.,
-on each run C<mirror.ctan.org> might resolve to a new host, resulting in
-a different hash), it's harmless to delete them.
+C<mirror.ctan.org> resolves to many different hosts, each resulting in
+a possibly different hash), it's harmless to delete them.
=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE FOR TLMGR