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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-24 00:14:07 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-24 00:14:07 +0000 |
commit | f4c177c2f968c468d88aea4eee2b700ae0ab834a (patch) | |
tree | f7f40793b128539fa67ea13bf7ac65275506a6a3 /Master/texmf/scripts | |
parent | 7d3cc6e014583a405c33b4ca231652c19fed8de9 (diff) |
autobackup doc tweaks
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@13436 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Master/texmf/scripts')
-rwxr-xr-x | Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl | 41 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl index 9ad4383923c..7149c325dd9 100755 --- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ sub action_update { if ($autobackup) { # check the format, we currently allow only natural numbers, and -1 if ($autobackup eq "-1") { - debug ("Automatic backups activated, keeping \\infty backups.\n"); + debug ("Automatic backups activated, keeping all backups.\n"); $opts{"backup"} = 1; } elsif ($autobackup eq "0") { debug ("Automatic backups disabled.\n"); @@ -3087,6 +3087,7 @@ In the second form, if I<value> is not given, the setting for I<key> is displayed. If I<value> is present, I<key> is set to I<value>. Possible values for I<key> are: + C<location> (default installation location), C<formats> (create formats at installation time), C<docfiles> (install documentation files), @@ -3097,13 +3098,11 @@ Possible values for I<key> are: C<sys_man> (location where man pages are linked to by action symlinks) C<sys_info> (location where info pages are linked to by action symlinks) -Perhaps the most common use of C<option> is if you originally installed from -DVD, and want to permanently change the installation to get further -updates from the Internet. To do this, you can run - - tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/YYYY +One common use of C<option> is if you originally installed from DVD, and +want to permanently change the installation to get further updates from +the Internet. To do this, you can run -where YYYY is the TeX Live release year. + tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet The two options C<autobackup> and C<backupdir> determine defaults for the C<update>, C<backup> and C<restore> actions. These three actions @@ -3111,27 +3110,25 @@ need a directory to write to or read from the backups. If C<--backupdir> is not specified on the command line, the C<backupdir> option value is used (if set). -The C<autobackup> option (de)activates the automatic generation of -backups. Its value is an integer. If C<autobackup> is C<-1>, backups -will not be removed by default. If C<autobackup> is 0 or positive, it -specifies the number of backups to be kept. Thus, backups are disabled -with 0 as the values. - -B<Warning:> If you want to set the optin C<autobackup> on the command line -it might be interpreted as an option. In this case you have to use +The C<autobackup> option (de)activates automatic generation of backups. +Its value is an integer. If the C<autobackup> value is C<-1>, no +backups are removed. If C<autobackup> is 0 or more, it specifies the +number of backups to keep. Thus, backups are disabled if the value is +0. In the C<--clean> mode of the C<backup> action this option also +specifies the number to be kept. - tlmgr option -- autobackup -1 +To setup C<autobackup> to C<-1> on the command line, use -The C<--> makes tlmgr stop parsing for options at that place. + tlmgr option autobackup infty -Alternatively, you can ue C<infty> instead of C<-1>, so the above is -equivalent to +Or you can use: - tlmgr option autobackup infty + tlmgr option -- autobackup -1 +The C<--> avoids having the C<-1> treated as an option. (In general, +C<--> stops parsing for arguments at the point where it appears; this is +a general feature of option parsing.) -In the C<--clean> mode of the C<backup> action this option also -specifies the number to be kept. =head2 symlinks [add|remove] |