add a todo idea

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@11008 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index df21a27841f..58afb6f8375 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@
 # - save the remote texlive.tlpdb and its md5-hash, and before downloading
 #   check only for the md5-hash of the remote tlpdb, and re-download only
 #   if necessary
+#     implementation ideas:
+#     . save the tlpdb in ROOT/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.<MD5SUM>
+#       where <MD5SUM> is md5hash of the location argument
+#       this way more than one location texlive.tlpdb can be saved
+#     . if tlmgr makes something which needs the remote database it
+#       tries to get the md5hash of the remote database
+#       (.../texlive.tlpdb.md5)
+#         -> if this does not work, assume that we are offline (tell the user)
+#            then use the local copy of the database
+#         -> if that worked, check the md5sum with the md5sum of the local
+#            copy of the remote tlpdb
+#            -> if they are equal continue with that
+#            -> if they are unequal try to download the new one
 # - backup extensions (email from Manuel)
 #   tlmgr option backupdir /some/fix/location
 #   with default TLROOT/backups as default